OQO [Re: Yet another interesting bit of hardware in theDynapad vein...]

Kevin Fisher kgf at golden.net
Wed May 15 20:22:18 UTC 2002


Just out of curiosity...I've never had any experience with Crusoe chips
before.  I notice the OQO has a 1Ghz CPU...and I understand this has no
floating point either.  However, at that clock speed, how do you think
emulation would perform?  Undoubtadly Squeak (or Ogg Vorbis decoding :)
would be faster, but would it be MUCH faster?

(I too await a PDA with a floating point unit of some sort...floating
point, and lots of RAM....or, an iPod with Vorbis support...)


On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:07:12PM -0700, Tim Rowledge wrote:
> 
> XScale is very unlilkely to get FP hardware; after all it would then
> compete very clearly with x86 devices.
> 
> However, ARM10 devices do had fp - in fact array FP - hardware. An
> 800MHz ARM1020FE based machine would be very nice to have. Supposedly
> Lucent has produced sample units, but I haven't heard of anyone shipping yet.
> 
> tim
> PS Oh yes, ARM11 is already on the way.
> 



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