Probably not so much effort. But the real challenge imo is: - the UI and the communication between that UI and the backend (scientific-oriented) software - the wise specification of that backend (numerical vs. symbolic vs. both, reusing existing software vs. new thing, simple vs. complex)
Personnally, I thought I would be targeting a brand new implementation of some scientific calculator targetted at second-grade students; but given the wonderful (and often much more ambitious) software already existing, I have been wondering for several months if that's not re-inventing the wheel (aka as a dead-end project). Rodolphe Le mardi 01 juillet 2008 à 22:28 +0200, Francesco Cat a écrit : > How much would a Octave port take??? :) > > 2008/7/1 Ken Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Rodolphe Ortalo: > >> > >> Given the freerunner hw, you can certainly do much better than that! > >> I would expect something like "mathematica in your pocket"... ;-) > > > > The neo1973 has ~8 times the floating point performance of a VAX 11/780 > > (double precision). The initial version of Mathematica was developed > > on a VAX 11/750 - the Freerunner should be about 20 times faster than > > that machine in floating point. It was also rare to run across an > > 11/750 with more than 4 MByte of RAM. > > > > Ken Young > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Openmoko community mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
