<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>Hi Andrew and the rest,<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>The StrongArm had to do without a FPU which is probably what set it back too far from the competition. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>That's a dream machine which would allow both office and gaming next to dedicated embedded implementations.</div><div><br></div><div>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. :-)</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards, </div><div>Jan Rinze Peterzon. </div><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>From: "Andrew E. Mileski" <andrewm@isoar.ca> <br>Date: 7/11/16 19:44 (GMT+01:00) <br>To: netwinder@netwinder.org <br>Subject: Re: Project Idea <br><br>Looked at my e-mail on my mobile phone and saw Jan Rinze's name, not noticing it <br>was a NetWinder post, as I subscribe to several lists. Thought, "oh wow, I wow, <br>I remember that one!"<br><br>I've gone over to the dark side: I have a Raspberry PI 3 Model B running Fedora <br>24, that is all and more of what the NetWinder wanted to be. Guess the <br>NetWinder was a couple of decades ahead in concept, but behind in technology.<br><br>I really like the RPI 3B, but it requires turning a blind-eye to the large <br>amount of proprietary binary blobs it takes to get the the thing running. The <br>RPI3 performance is really impressive once the frequency governor is changed to <br>"performance" to boot in cmdline.txt, and then once booted changed to "ondemand" <br>with a 60% threshold via tmpfiles.d (or whatever poison you prefer).<br><br>I divested myself of all NetWinders about two years ago when I last moved, <br>dumping them on Ralph (I think?), and he probably just dropped them at the <br>recyclers when he recently moved.<br><br>~~<br>Andrew E. Mileski<br><br>On 2016-07-10 04:52, janrinze wrote:<br>> I still have a couple of Netwinders. There are a few projects in mind where they<br>> are useful. Not having any time is the biggest hurdle for me and I hope to have<br>> a little bit of time in the next few months.<br>> Will keep you updated.<br>><br>> Jan Rinze.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Netwinder mailing list<br>Netwinder@netwinder.org<br>http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/netwinder<br></body></html>