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

Ohshima, Yoshiki Yoshiki.Ohshima at disney.com
Tue May 14 22:49:40 UTC 2002


  Hello,

> Tommy Thorn <tt1729 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Thanks, but I take an OQO anyday of a Tiqit anyday
> > (how do you fit a Tigit in your pocket?).  OQO takes
> > a USB keyboard btw.
> 
> Indeed.  I think an OQO, or something like it, will be my next computer.
>  Being a poo' college kid, next computer means main machine.  But it's
> got good enough hardware (lots of RAM, 1 GHz Crusoe), and the ability to
> hook up to external keyboards, monitor, &c.  Just run around with my
> maik Squeak image.   But then again, by the time I actually get around
> to buying a new computer, perhaps everyone will have
> these. :)

  An XScale based PocketPC is coming out in a few weeks from
Toshiba.  I would assume that XScale at 400MHz (max) is
faster than 300MHz Geode:-)

  Regarding Zaurus, I happened to have a source tree of VM
for Qtopia.  That VM has a direct access to the mmap'ed
framebuffer and seems to work.

-- Yoshiki




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