From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl ([195.216.104.3] ident=root) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 15FmT4-0007XB-00 for ; Thu, 28 Jun 2001 20:49:06 -0400 Received: from cybertsar (ppp22.sylaba.poznan.pl [195.216.104.122]) by goliath.sylaba.poznan.pl (8.10.1/8.10.1) with SMTP id f5T0mAS09176 for ; Fri, 29 Jun 2001 02:48:11 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <001e01c10035$afae31a0$0100a8c0@cybertsar> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: <000e01c0fe5e$80797bc0$c52b893e@essex.ac.uk> <004401c0fe8f$a19af780$0100a8c0@cybertsar> <20010626205040.D611@lpwh.pwh.com> Subject: Re: New Braille Notetaker From Papenmeier Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2001 19:19:21 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.4 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Here is an interesting question. Why do all these machines use 200MHZ processor? BrailleNote uses this one, another device that I know of, it's being developped, uses the same one... Can't they use something faster? Try to open a 1000-page Word file and you'll see what I mean! Victor ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:50 AM Subject: Re: New Braille Notetaker From Papenmeier > If they are using the processor that I think they are, > it is the strongarm 200mhz processor. > It is plenty fast enough for most applications. > While I was working at blazie engineering and the freedom scientific > we started to develop such a device. > I had a development machine > based on this processor running linux, > and it was a very nice system. > phil > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:26:55AM +0200, Victor Tsaran wrote: > > Hi, > > This definitely makes my mouth watter! This thing does sound like a good > > alternative to BrailleNote. The price, if Janina's word turns out to be > > true, is a bit too high though. Some of the tech specifications are a bit > > snicky: 32-bit RISC processor does not indicate its speed, Linux does not > > indicate the version of the OS they are using. But, I think it was a great > > idea to use Linux instead of Windows CE. > > Well, let's see! > > Victor > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >