Subject: Re: more tested peripherals on the TS-7200
To: None <port-arm@netbsd.org>
From: Jongwoo Han <jongwooh@gmail.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 01/11/2005 10:14:48
> Since 1990's there were products named Xterminals.  Most of them
> were early adaptor of embeded RISC like R3000, AM29000, i960 or
> others.  They were 30+MHz equipped with 16~32MB, not under
> powered, really useful.  These days X environment is known bloated
> ugly.   The sole reason is a wide acceptance of fancy window mgr and
> miserable web browser.   Embed products can avoid them to mimic
> g'd old days.

Today's desktop GUI applications use graphics accelerator's feature 
extensively. I think small graphics processors for embedded devices (such as 
mobile phones) will be available soon, although it looks like the prices 
would not be much satisfactory.

> It's attractive, I think.
>
> Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology, a NetBSD company
>

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Jongwoo Han