On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:12 AM, ETM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought that was going to be a special item for > a later version of the XO, something being done > between XO and Microsoft and that a USB flash > drive might be involved.
Substituts SD memory card for USB disk, and this is correct. The 'special item' consists of new hooks into OpenFirmware to support the legacy BIOS calls which Windows requires. This is a 'software only' solution. Additionally, the version of Windows XP which Microsoft reportedly wants to provide requires a larger flash drive, (the XO has only 1Gb) so the thought is to provide additional storage using a 2Gb SD memory card (as opposed to a USB disk, although I can't see why it wouldn't work with USB just as well.) There was also some discussion of expanding the size of the internal flash drive on a later model of the XO-1 which would eliminate the need for the external SD card. So I guess you could say XP is too large for the XO without expansion, but Microsoft seems to think the performance of the XO using an SD memory expansion meets their quality standards. > Elaine > > If you don't want an honest answer, don't > ask the question. --Charles Barkley > > Hello Steve > > On Tuesday, June 24, 2008, you wrote > >> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:59 PM, ETM >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Isn't XP too large for the XO? > >> Not according to Microsoft. > >> After all, they *are* the experts, > > > > _______________________________________________ > Olpc-open mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open > -- Steve Holton [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Olpc-open mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/olpc-open
