Why so few garage processors? (was Re: Squeak History /
TinyMachines)
Jack Johnson
fragment at nas.com
Wed Mar 19 19:39:44 UTC 2003
Hannes Hirzel wrote:
> Just to see what happens. Sharing the x-perience of achievieng
> something what people normally consider to be hard.
>
> If it isn't fun and easy to do we shoudn't do it.
I'd settle for fun and hard.
When I saw the uCsimm project, I immediately thought about a parallel
project to utilize the uCsimm, where you'd have an open experimentation
platform based on the uCsimm pinout. Any other SIMM-based project that
used the new "standard" could reuse the board for
keyboard/power/serial/ethernet/etc. making the barriers to
experimentation that much lower.
Which is also where I started thinking about the Pocket Mac Classic. An
open-platform PDA where you could change it's nature by replacing a
SIMM, but reuse the chicklet keys and low-res screen, etc. So, if you'd
rather have a Pocket C-64, Pocket Apple II or Pocket Sinclair, voila.
And the companies who can afford to do more, there's always the
XScale/WinCE SIMM, PalmOS SIMM, etc.
(Way off topic, sorry)
-Jack
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