On 5.7.2004 at 15:51 Wolfgang Lenerz wrote: > this would be a very intesresting topic to discuss during the > Eindhoven meeting! By all means, try to get your guy there (and > yourself, too!). > I would certainly try to lend a hand at adapting SMSQE, if at all > possible. > Wolfgang
Eh, sorry for this, the message was not intended for the list... but I suppose now that I've let some sort of cat out of the bag, any comment is welcome. Regarding this piece of hardware, I am trying to sort of skid around on the edge of a blade - trying to make it both what my employer wants it to be, as well as a product for the QL community. He is willing to pay for the hardware side of the developement, and this hardware could then be made available to the QL community essentially at cost, which is what the community needs. On the other hand my employer needs the expertise people of the community have regarding porting of the OS and some applications. The end product could then be marketed in several markets. Don't ask me about costs yet, I have no idea as it's all under developement. I know that boards are going to be made in neighbouring Slovenia, which is now part of the EU. General specs are as follows: * 66MHz 68SZ328 CPU (performance should be about 50% faster than SGC) * VGA monitor output (640 x 480 resolution or slightly over - theoretical limit is 1024x512 + there is a virtual screen feature) graphics in 256 colors (65536 is possible but only for lower resolutions due to memory bandwidth limitations) * Integrated small LCD display (6-7" diagonal) option to make a palm sized computer, stylus digitizer hardware included for touch sensitive displays. * 32 or 64M of RAM built in (not expandable) * 2M (at least) of Flash built in * MMC or SD flash card for storage (Sony Memory Stick is also possible but as this is less proliferant, more expensive, and larger, it will probably not be used) * 2 serial ports (or one serial and one IRDA) with high baud rate support. * Matrix keyboard (8x8, probably compatible with QL keyrow assignments) * USB device port (NOT host controller - the board would be a device to be connected to a host for data transfer) * Mono sound in/out * Real Time Clock * Low power * (possible extra features like a QL compatible expansion bus, CF or IDE port, parallel port, dimensions that make it fit a regular QL case, etc). _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.quanta.org.uk/mailing.htm
