hzn (+1.0) 29/11/04 4:59PM |
Good news, indeed! |
sa110 (+0.5)
 29/11/04 5:01PM |
2nded. most definately good news. |
leeshep
 29/11/04 5:33PM |
happy days, PDA's here we come  |
jjvdgeer (+3.5) 29/11/04 6:40PM |
"The addition of the MiMagic 5 to the ever growing list of processors that RISC OS supports, is a considerable benefit for the wider RISC OS community."
- Is the embedded market part of "the wider RISC OS community"?
If not, than this means this will surface in some way as a consumer product interesting for the enthousiastic market? |
monkeyson (+1.0)
 29/11/04 8:48PM |
I hope so. *waves credit card* |
Revin Kevin (+2.4)
 29/11/04 8:57PM |
Looks very promising.
Lets hope it gets a few more people to the ARM Club show. |
Trippy 29/11/04 9:52PM |
Wonder how many pennies this little beastie will be?
Unfortunately, I can't make the show this weekend to find out
...but I am looking forward to it performing better that all those WinCE PDA's that are floating around?
Incidentally, is it true that 'WinCE' stands for 'Windows Childrens Edition'? |
AndrewDuffell
 29/11/04 10:14PM |
If it is aimed at the embedded market I doubt that they'll sell it to you anyway, or that it would be that much use. |
Revin Kevin (-0.5)
 29/11/04 10:51PM |
If it was aimed at the embedded market then surely the press release would be from Tematic not castle. |
JWCR
 29/11/04 11:11PM |
Argh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The week after I buy myself a PDA. |
simo (+2.5)
 29/11/04 11:51PM |
"...but I am looking forward to it performing better that all those WinCE PDA's that are floating around?"
I doubt it - this is an 200MHz ARM processor, not likely to be anywhere near a 400MHz XScale or 300MHz MIPS etc.
Jees, even people are saying the Sharp Zaurus is too slow - this thing will crawl.
Plus WinCE (or PocketPC, or Linux) has many more years of development than a hacked together version of RO5 (itself pretty hacked together!) with a new HAL.
Hey at least its low power, the battery will last forever, but the tasks will take twice as long to do, so you'll need the battery life! |
Sawadee (-1.0)
 29/11/04 11:57PM |
"Multimedia Enhancement Hardware-assist for video streaming and decoding"
"MultiMediaCard"
I don't know of MiMagic5, but it sounds like we are getting our RO hardware set up for Multimedia (Cino) and is it for portables only at this stage??
Sounds most promising  |
Sawadee
 30/11/04 1:45AM |
Simo
Interesting comparison in your comments.
Thinking about that though, at least something for a start is still better than nothing for RISC OS.
RO has a few years of development to catch up to. I too wonder from your comments why the 200MHZ ARM processor and not the 400MHZ XScale, there must be a reason? |
blahsnr (+1.5) 30/11/04 7:17AM |
simo
ARM Linux on an Iyonix seems significantly slower than RO5. A 200MHz RiscPC seems a lot faster than a 200MHz Psion Netbook.
Thus RISC OS seems to run better on slower processors than other OS's. I realise am not consistently comparing like for like, and that hardware (and software) differences say between the Psion and RiscPC make up some of the speed difference. The Zaurus runs a flavour of Linux as an OS.
I'd be very surprised (bearing in mind max screen resolution of 800x600) if a Mi Magic 5 based machine running RO5 was so slow as to be practically unusable.
All in all very good news. |
mrchocky (+2.5)
 30/11/04 8:55AM |
In reply to simo:
what do you base your justifications on? Please, some references and not guesses.
"people are saying the Sharp Zaurus is too slow". But the Zaurus et al run WinCE/Linux, not RISC OS. In any case, your presumption avoids the issue that their are a variety of XScale processors with associated architectures.
I suggests that this ARM9 device runs in practice around the same speed as a PXA255 devices, and probably noticeably faster in many instances than a RiscPC (having faster bus, memory, etc).
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bernie 30/11/04 9:54AM |
this is GUESS, but... from the characteristics, this processor seems tailored for 3G mobile handsets. Camera, streaming video, variety of storage devices... Oh well, time for a RO mobile phone? |
JGZimmerle
 30/11/04 10:03AM |
Generally RISC OS feels very fast, because it acts quickly on interrupts caused by user inputs. Processing large amounts of data is not one of its strengths. |
harmsy
 30/11/04 11:28AM |
Sound like fun to me. Has anyone got a RON yet?! |
john 30/11/04 1:23PM |
To me, RISC OS doesn't necesarily feel fast, but it feels predictable, i.e. I already know how long it will take to do something so I can do things at maximum speed. With windows I'm never quite sure whether it's crashed or it's going to catch up with me in a min (wheras RISC OS tends to make it obvious most of the time Having said that, I can't remember the last time I had to reboot due to RISC OS crashing altogether. Oregano sometimes randomly disappears, but no OS crashes. |
em2ac 30/11/04 2:23PM |
"years of development than a hacked together version of RO5"
Isn't this how all work in the world is done? Can't remember the last time I used anythign without it going wrong at some stage.
Sounds promising, Im sure Castle have somethign bigger up their sleave.....Lets see what happends! |
nijinsky 30/11/04 4:40PM |
Perhaps the parket most suited to this is portable bio/medical imaging. Think hand-held ultrasound scanners, field medical diagnostics etc where low weight (lack of large batteries) etc counts a lot and where a desktop style interface rathere than a PDA interface is preferable. Of course I'm just speculating that it may be in my field. Indeed I think it was 6 years ago I mentioed that this si a possible market so i'm probably wrong. AGAIN
Cheers
Bob |
nijinsky 30/11/04 7:46PM |
Oh here is another idea. A portable barcode scanner. they normaly sell for the price of an iyonix.
see
[Link: www.barcodesinc.com]
Cheers
bob |
mripley 1/12/04 3:29PM |
Before folks get carried away you should look at the state of NeoMagic....not healthy. |
Revin Kevin
 1/12/04 8:47PM |
Nice to see some high powered customers for castle as well with the IYONIX lets hope they like them. |
jess
 1/12/04 9:49PM |
it's nice to finally get owner of RISC OS who seen interested in actually trying to get it into other peoples products. It would be nice if there were a PDA produced for the general market with RO rather than just aiming it at existing users. |
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