On Thu, 10 Sep 1998, Roland Orre wrote: > a company which does this for us. Then we have solved the display problem > and can do the same for the rest of the hardware. PC/104 is a nice and > flexible system, but the available stuff is not designed to be very > economical with power space saving and with all boxes and cables needed > you end up with a rather clumsy solution whatever you do. If the system > is specially designed to be small from the beginning it could shrink a > lot. If you look upon the palm tops today you get rather envy as they > are rather small, but unfortunately too limited in their design. I think the PLEB will make an ideal wearable system. By current estimates, it's looking like being a similar size and having similar power consumption to an Apple Newton, but it will run Linux and have similar processing power to a Pentium 200. Although there are no current plans to produce it commercially, we may be willing to do a limited production run if there is enough interest. Additionally the design will be available to anyone for free anyway (under some kind of Open Hardware license, the details of which are still to be finalised), so you could produce one yourself (commercially, even) if you have the money/facilities. We hope to have a prototype running before the end of the year (though part of it is currently being redesigned due to the sudden announcement of a companion chip to the SA1100 which will give the PLEB significant extra features such as USB master, PS2, and VGA video, for little extra cost). We are always on the lookout for more capable hardware and software hackers to help out with the project- take a look at http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~compsoc/linux/pleb/ for more information. Best wishes, Alex. --------------- Linux- the choice of a GNU generation. -------------- : Alex Holden (M1CJD)- Caver, Programmer, Land Rover nut, Radio Ham : -------------------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ -------------------- -- Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org
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