New Braille Notetaker From Papenmeier

Gregory Nowak romualt at megsinet.net
Thu Jun 28 22:45:10 EDT 2001


Also try to use the braillenote's
internal hsp modem, and you'll also know
what is meant.
Greg


On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 07:19:21PM +0200, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> Here is an interesting question. Why do all these machines use 200MHZ
> processor? BrailleNote uses this one, another device that I know of, it's
> being developped, uses the same one... Can't they use something faster? Try
> to open a 1000-page Word file and you'll see what I mean!
> Victor
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <philwh at gate.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 2:50 AM
> Subject: Re: New Braille Notetaker From Papenmeier
> 
> 
> > If they are using the processor that I think they are,
> > it is the strongarm 200mhz processor.
> > It is plenty fast enough for most applications.
> > While I was working at blazie engineering and the freedom scientific
> > we started to develop such a device.
> > I had a development machine
> > based on this processor running linux,
> > and it was a very nice system.
> > phil
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:26:55AM +0200, Victor Tsaran wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > This definitely makes my mouth watter! This thing does sound like a good
> > > alternative to BrailleNote. The price, if Janina's word turns out to be
> > > true, is a bit too high though. Some of the tech specifications are a
> bit
> > > snicky: 32-bit RISC processor does not indicate its speed, Linux does
> not
> > > indicate the version of the OS they are using. But, I think it was a
> great
> > > idea to use Linux instead of Windows CE.
> > > Well, let's see!
> > > Victor
> > >
> > >
> > >
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