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Re: Hardware

From: (Grant Stockly)
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 15:25:33 -0700

>You have found this mailing list but not:
>http://gn.www.media.mit.edu/projects/wearables/
>how come?

a member of this list was interested in my Mpeg audio solutions so I
decided to join...

>and there are others like:
>http://wile.thetech.org/~brudy/wearable.html
>http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/wearables/Oregon/
>and commercial one like: http://www.xybernaut.com./
>and http://www.dwave.net/~fwpc/
>
>> I also want to ask what the object of this list is.  Is it to build a
>> wearable computer to sell as profit, or is it to gain popularity on the
>> internet for building the first best free design computer?
>Here I speak completely from my own point of view. A lot of people on this
>list, including myself, want a wearable, comfortable computer. All people
>may not want to build. Some build because they are interrested in it,
>som people build because they may be cheaper that way. And some people,
>like the people started this list, build because that has been the only
>way. Nowadays there are coming more and more opportunities for buying
>ready to go (unfortunately ready to go with W95 or so...), I've seen
>some of the commercial speaking about other unixs like SCO, but none has
>mentioned Linux/GNU which is probably the best one suited for a wearable,
>as for most computers, BUT that depends on you profession, interest
>and need of course. No one should be expected to be using or forced
>to be using a certain operative system. Everyone should choose the
>one which is best suited for ones need and taste.
>
>I guess that very few of the people on this list is going for constructing
>something commercial. There are a lot out there doing this already.
>
>        Best regards
>        Roland Orre

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