"Strategic Shift"?

[Kevin Purcell]

The article speculates about XP on the XO hardware which is way off  
base, IMHO. 128MB RAM and no paging file? I don't think XO has the  
resources for XP (as most of us would know it -- not a just kernel  
and not much else).

Windows CE would be a good fit. XO is rather like a very powerful  
Handheld PC (HPC), if you remember that far back.

Mostly it would come down to writing a board support package for the  
XO hardware. A lot of that is already done for Geode platforms so it  
would come down to modifying an exisiting BSP to work with specific  
details of XO (display drivers, mesh wireless, power management,  
keyboard, extra controllers and so on).

I'd be particularly interested to see how good their power management  
is compared to the Linux-based XO.

On Dec 5, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Jim Gettys wrote:

> No.
>
> OLPC is an open platform; Microsoft has always been welcome to do
> whatever it wants to.
>
> What the article also doesn't make clear is the SD slot was wanted by
> many of the countries and that the incremental cost of adding SD, once
> we had to do CAFE at all due to the poor NAND flash performance of the
> Geode, was the cost of the connector; we'd have been fools not to  
> put it
> in given that low an incremental cost.
>                                       Regards,
>                                                  - Jim
>
>
> On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 18:37 +0100, Bert Freudenberg wrote:
>> Is there anything to this?
>>
>> http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2170209/microsoft-looking- 
>> windows-olpc
>>
>> - Bert -
>>
>>
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