The article speculates about XP on the XO hardware which is way off
base, IMHO. 128MB RAM and no paging file? I don't think XO has the
resources for XP (as most of us would know it -- not a just kernel
and not much else).
Windows CE would be a good fit. XO is rather like a very powerful
Handheld PC (HPC), if you remember that far back.
Mostly it would come down to writing a board support package for the
XO hardware. A lot of that is already done for Geode platforms so it
would come down to modifying an exisiting BSP to work with specific
details of XO (display drivers, mesh wireless, power management,
keyboard, extra controllers and so on).
I'd be particularly interested to see how good their power management
is compared to the Linux-based XO.
On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Jim Gettys wrote:
No.
OLPC is an open platform; Microsoft has always been welcome to do
whatever it wants to.
What the article also doesn't make clear is the SD slot was wanted by
many of the countries and that the incremental cost of adding SD, once
we had to do CAFE at all due to the poor NAND flash performance of the
Geode, was the cost of the connector; we'd have been fools not to
put it
in given that low an incremental cost.
Regards,
- Jim
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:37 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
Is there anything to this?
http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2170209/microsoft-looking-
windows-olpc
- Bert -
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