I probably didn't mention this but I was looking for a cheap board. I wasn't going to go out of the way to pay much for a board.
Inline replies follow. On 7/25/07, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On 7/25/07, Sharad Birmiwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a matter of fact, I have a P1 - 133MHZ (16MB RAM). I was thinking of > > doing that but I can't carry it around to show off my latest projects > :). > > Isn't small beautiful? > > Not sure on the availability of mini-ITX boards in India. I would rather go for my pentium than using an ITX board. > I don't want to use an OS right now. > > You can run firmware code from grub. See Simple OS written by David > Decotigny, and Thomas Pettazoni: > http://sos.enix.org/fr/PagePrincipale I'll look into this. This might be useful. Thanks. It is sometimes very hard for me to digest the fact that many people > in India go out of the way and pay huge amounts for development boards > which are either quite expensive or not available in India, and you > have to import them (as compared to their low price and availability > in US and EU). There is so much you can learn from economical x86 > boards in India, and use the best of it. > > > with AT89S52 and some TI DSP kit. I want to work more with kits right > now, > > implement some ideas I have in mind right now. > > Such as? As far as I can understand, you have never mentioned what you > want to do, but, you would like to work only on embedded kits. > I made a micro-mouse (autonomous bot with on board power and logic which can navigate through a maze, small size) which failed utterly but I got to learn a bit with AT89S52. TI kit was for a lab work (I'm still a student), wrote some filters.. I would like to start with blinking lights, display drivers, any and all trivial things that got me (and you?) started with programming? I wanted to write dedicated applications, program the flash, and execute. It's hard to justify this line of thinking. May be it came to me first. Any how, if you are suggesting using pentiums (which, as far as I understand, you are), what can I do with them (insert suggestings here)? I don't want to boot linux on it. And I also don't want to boot any other OS (I think this is partly inspired by reading Con Kolivas's interview last night [ http://apcmag.com/6735/interview_con_kolivas]). Not sure if this is the right path to take, as I said, I want to be a beginner, and I appreciate all advice. > Wouldn't I also have to worry > > about some driver issues like finding data sheets for onboard devices I > will > > use? I am hoping the kit will be accompanied with such details.. > > So, what do you use the kit for if everything is given to you in the > first place? Hands on experience? Sharad Birmiwal _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
