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Re: pentium vrt's

From: Martin C Sweitzer <msew+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 10:43:16 -0500 (EST)

Excerpts from wearableComputer: 27-Mar-98 pentium vrt's by "R. Paul
McCarty"@troi.c 
> So the breakdown looks like this:
>  
> Pentium(100-200MHz)   10-15watts
> Pentium(w/VRT 100-166Mhz) 7watts
> 486/100                 4-5watts
> 486/66                  3-4watts
> 486/40/33               2-3watts
> 386                     1-2watts
>  
> just for kicks:
> StrongARM 110(160MHz)   0.3watts
> StrongArm 110(200MHz)   0.9watts
> Super H RISC (60MHz)    0.3watts
> PowerPC 603e (66-200MHz)3.6watts (mklinux anyone?)

Well imo the pentium chips are utterly worthless for a wearable. (with
current battery life times)  And even with longer bettery lifetimes why
not just go for a solution that last twice as long :-)  or some SMP
action??

I also looked alot at the strongARM and it seems that if you were
willing to hack a bit with the OS you might be able to get one going.

For me I am SOL until those evil slow people at PED bring out the new
Private Eye. (Every day I drop one more step closer to insanity because
of them)

But when they do come out it will have given the strongARM linux folks a
bit more time!!  Bahahah  And then yes I become mobile!!!!

msew lack of slept induced email :-0 

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