Squeak PDA hardware: getting better and better!

Vincent Coetzee vincent.coetzee at ebucks.com
Sat Nov 1 08:43:18 UTC 2003


Hi Guys

Having seen this discussion on Squeak on PDAs, I am interested to know 
whether there is anything for Palms ?

Vincent
On Nov 01, 2003, at 09:20, Aaron J Reichow wrote:

> On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Yoshiki Ohshima wrote:
>
>>   Zaurus SL-C700 has 100MHz bus, but the later versions, C750 and C760
>> have 200MHz bus.  IIRC, the 36xx series have 103MHz bus.  (Yes, I
>> remember that memory bus for PXA 250's are slower than StrongArm's.)
>
> Ah, OK.  Good to know.  My information certainly wasn't the most 
> concrete
> with the older bus numbers, thanks for setting me straight. :)
>
> If the 36xx have a bus speed of 103 MHz, I wonder again why there was 
> such
> a huge leap in performance between a WinCE-based iPAQ 3650 and a Linux
> Zaurus SL-5500.  From other information (e.g. Linux on the same iPAQ) 
> it
> isn't because Linux is any more efficient. I'd chalked it up to bus 
> speed.
>
> Sure enough, the iPAQ 36xx do have a 103 MHz bus.  Oh well, destined 
> to be
> a mystery for the ages I suppose.
>
>>   Yup.  This looks interesting, indeed.  I don't know any other models
>> that uses PXA 263...
>
> There are a couple others, including the new Dell Axim X3.   
> Performance
> should be pretty comparable to the PXA 255, but with certain 
> perephrials
> like flash on the chip itself.
>
> info:
> http://www.intel.com/design/pca/3pda.htm
>
>>   Good.  Would you mind to include the screen update benchmark?
>
> Not a problem.  I will make available my much more comprehensive 
> benching
> image.  This bench.zip I whipped up quicky for one certain application 
> and
> user- a fellow I know has a Sig3 and I can't wait to srr what kind of
> numbers it spits out.
>
> Regards,
> Aaron
>
> --
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>                 unnecessary necessities."                :: mark twain
>




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