hardware for eToys

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Tue Nov 14 14:52:44 UTC 2006


The most severe drawback of ARM is lacking floating point support.  
That's one of the major reasons OLPC went with the Geode and not ARM.

- Bert -

On Nov 14, 2006, at 15:44 , Klaus D. Witzel wrote:

> Hi Jecel,
>
> nice find, perhaps they learned the eToys name from the OLPC  
> project ;-)
>
> Question to the VM guru: are there any opcodes in the instruction  
> set of ARM9 which allow a *fast* VM? A *small* VM is addressed by  
> the thumb thing, IIRC. But what about speed. And what VM  
> technology, (direct) threaded bytecode, or what does ARM9 support  
> best.
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> /Klaus
>
> On Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:58:57 +0100, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:
>
>> I found the subheading for the following press release funny in the
>> context of Squeak:
>>
>> http://www.lsi.com/news/product_news/2006_11_13.html
>>
>> "ZEVIO 1020 processor provides best-in-class cost, power and  
>> performance
>> for the expanding digital consumer appliance market, including  
>> eToys and
>> portable navigation devices"
>>
>> Though a 150MHz ARM9 would make for a rather slow Squeak machine  
>> (even
>> with all the neat graphics coprocessors it includes), at $8 (large
>> volumes) we can forgive this :-)
>>
>> -- Jecel
>>
>>
>
>
>






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