iLiad iRex opens the Iliad for User-created Apps

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by arivero

He still uses his non graphical version of Emacs.

Careful partner, I prefer the non-graphical version of emacs myself!

All the GUI does is slow down screen refreshes for the skilled user.

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by arivero

Particularly, hope you are not a spin-off of a big industry has have provided you with a magic USB chip with a propietary driver working only in linux 2.4.x (The chip is great, it does USB both ways, so you can be master and slave of the bus at the same time. )

Then hope do you not get a flash memory chip with is famously one of the better ones of the market but, guess what? It depends on a propietary driver for some of their anti-wearing features, and the existing linux driver probably gets a poorer performance.

And finally hope you have not decided to work with the most advanced screen technology in the market, geting involved in a lot of red tape papers of patent rights and agreements where you do not know even if you can release info about it.

You forgot the part about using an Intel CPU chip with a lengthy list of bugs and issues you need to compensate for.

And our buddy the UCB13xx series chip that is one of the strangest collections of functions I've seen in a "standard" part in some time.

They also added a real time clock chip rather than use the PXA-255's built in clock. I suspect it was to have a more accurate clock with alarms to wake from Sandman but none of that is in use (I poked the chip and asked it.)

My clock drifts abominably unless I keep it sync'd with my own personal iDS server. When I get the bandwidth I need to write the clock drift correction logic to leverage the clock chip's precision time base correction function.

[arivero]

Originally Posted by scotty1024

You forgot the part about using an Intel CPU chip with a lengthy list of bugs and issues you need to compensate for.

Well, at least that chip is standard and well supported by the linux kernel developers! And I do not blame Intel about having buggy chips, I got my libretto CT100 cheap because Toshiba retired it from the market after the famous Pentium bug (the CT110 being same characteristics, double price!).

And our buddy the UCB13xx series chip that is one of the strangest collections of functions I've seen in a "standard" part in some time.

It is also a Philips part, isnt it? As the aformentioned ISP1362

[scotty1024]

Originally Posted by arivero

It is also a Philips part, isnt it? As the aformentioned ISP1362

Yes indeedy. Philips must give their spinoff's column 5 pricing on chips.