[ANN] [UPDATES] Squeak 3.4 now in beta

Alan Kay Alan.Kay at squeakland.org
Fri Dec 6 11:36:45 UTC 2002


Hey Tim!

What's the story on FP -and- graphics coprocessors on ARMs these days?

Did Intel really not put FP on the X scale processors?

Cheers,

Alan

------

At 7:39 PM -0800 12/5/02, Tim Rowledge wrote:
>Brian Keefer <mgomes21 at cox.net> is claimed by the authorities to have written:
>
>>  > and even kbfFS (yes, the keyboard can be treated as a filesystem.
>>
>>  So, would you have to use an absolute pathname to distinguish between the
>>  main keyboard numbers and the numeric keypad?
>Interesting suggestion, but no, it actually provides _two_ keyboard
>devices. kbd: is a line oriented read-only (imagine the fun of a
>writable keyboard device; sort of brail :-j ) FS and rawkbd: provides
>character oriented input.
>
>It's all a bit wierd. Works amazingly well most of the time though. We
>even have nice new machines to buy this year; Iyonix is a 600MHz XScale
>machine with a decent memory bus (200MHz DDR ! Whooppee!) along with
>PCI for grapchics etc and Omega has a more sophisticated CPU arrangement
>but a 100MHz memory. I'm trying to work out which one to buy....
>
>
>tim
>
>--
>Tim Rowledge, tim at sumeru.stanford.edu, http://sumeru.stanford.edu/tim
>Save energy:  Drive a smaller shell.


-- 



More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list