Project Idea

[janrinze]

Hi Andrew and the rest,
Yes we have been very busy with Netwinders in the past. The phone you are holding is probably ARM based and it has a linux kernel that has become possible also because of the work we have done on the Netwinders. That phone is more than ten times more powerful than a Netwinder but nonetheless it's very similar. The StrongArm had to do without a FPU which is probably what set it back too far from the competition. 
I would love to see a 8 core cortex A73 in a Netwinder setup. It will be very energy efficient and please with about 8 or 16 GB Ram.
That's a dream machine which would allow both office and gaming next to dedicated embedded implementations.
Did you know that I recently built a Acorn Atom from diy.acornatom.nl ? 6502 plus CPLD and FPGA.. Runs my 1980"s software like a charm. :-)
Best regards, Jan Rinze Peterzon. 

-------- Original message --------
From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <andrewm at isoar.ca> 
Date: 7/11/16  19:44  (GMT+01:00) 
To: netwinder at netwinder.org 
Subject: Re: Project Idea 

Looked at my e-mail on my mobile phone and saw Jan Rinze's name, not noticing it 
was a NetWinder post, as I subscribe to several lists.  Thought, "oh wow, I wow, 
I remember that one!"

I've gone over to the dark side:  I have a Raspberry PI 3 Model B running Fedora 
24, that is all and more of what the NetWinder wanted to be.  Guess the 
NetWinder was a couple of decades ahead in concept, but behind in technology.

I really like the RPI 3B, but it requires turning a blind-eye to the large 
amount of proprietary binary blobs it takes to get the the thing running.  The 
RPI3 performance is really impressive once the frequency governor is changed to 
"performance" to boot in cmdline.txt, and then once booted changed to "ondemand" 
with a 60% threshold via tmpfiles.d (or whatever poison you prefer).

I divested myself of all NetWinders about two years ago when I last moved, 
dumping them on Ralph (I think?), and he probably just dropped them at the 
recyclers when he recently moved.

~~
Andrew E. Mileski

On 2016-07-10 04:52, janrinze wrote:
> I still have a couple of Netwinders. There are a few projects in mind where they
> are useful. Not having any time is the biggest hurdle for me and I hope to have
> a little bit of time in the next few months.
> Will keep you updated.
>
> Jan Rinze.

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