> >I have been working on a business venture in embedded computing. It > >involves computing for environmental controls. For this I have specified a > >hardware reference platform with minimal requirements that are quite high. > >I am now sitting on standard ARM 7500 complete system boards with the > >following spec: > > > >64MHz EP7500FE ARM system on chip (200/400 MHz options) > >2x 72 pin SIMM for FPM or EDO memory, up to 256MB. > >Three ROM sockets, 2MB flash, supports 6MB max. > >Parallel port, serial ports, floppy > >Dual channel IDE ATA/33 > >Integrated video: > > 800 x 600 @16.7M > > 1024 x 768 @32K > > 1600 x 1200 @256 > >Any user-customizable resolution/frame rate selectable. > >Integrated 10BaseT Ethernet > >Integrated ESS audio. > >16 bit ISA slot > >Real time clock > >I2C bus > > I don't have the time or the skill to help out with your project. > > Yet, as a user of ARM products I know there capability ... and I have > enjoyed RISC OS since its inception. > > I would be interested in being a user. The idea of a 'QL2' is > promising. > > -- > Malcolm Cadman I am watching this thread with interest. As someone who would not really buy such a machine as I am quite happy reinstalling *dows once a month on average :-( hence why turn to ARM OS'es or Linux...that would take the fun out of home computing if there was nothing to go wrong (that's one problem with QPC2+SMSQ/E, it's too stable, nothing goes wrong unless I misprogram or the PeeCee itself has a funny turn).
Last week's virus messhas turned out to be beneficial in that it forced me to get the latest drivers for everything as the Win98SE I installed seems to be a bit more fussy about drivers for older applications than the Win95OSR2+Win98upgrade I used to use. It took ages, and every time I solved one problem two more seemed to crawl out of the woodwork. I am sure though that should my career take a turn in the computing direction such a potentially multi-platform machine might be of interest at some point. And I'm sure that once the best market for it is identified and targetted it may well prove to be a really useful system, especially if the various OSes you mentioned become available for it. I'm sure that even an emulated SMSQ/E (as opposed to QDOS) would be fast on it (look at the emulation with QPC2 on a Windoze machine for example). RISC-type chips should be able to run processor emulations with good speed. -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List
