Beagle Board users out there?

[Neal Campbell]

I got excited when I saw you could use the Angstrom (sri about lack of
double umlats) Linux distro and did not consider the underlying
instruction set. Man if we could get an ARM engine we would really be
able to do some amazing stuff.

Anyway, I have little interest in the Atom. When the CEO of Intel
remarked at a convention that it "doesn't do anything you would want"
it kinda went off my radar screen!!

Sri for my irrational over-exuberance.

Best wishes
Neal

On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
> Hello again Neal,
>
> I was checking the mini-itx site after replying to you and I've just
> found what appears to be a treasure. I still don't think it is
> possible. Check:
>
> http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=31
>
> It's an Intel Atom board, with the processor for 76 USD... Can you
> hear the magic words ATOM PROCESSSOR, the new wonderchild from intel.
> This should help your kiosks needs.... clocked at 1.6ghz, very nice.
>
> andre
>
> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Andre Garzia <andre at andregarzia.com> wrote:
>> Neal,
>>
>> Hello there! I've been looking into beagle board for a while now and
>> also considering buying one. I believe you will not be able to develop
>> for it using Revolution since the processor is an OMAP from Texas
>> Instruments and that means ARM in plain english.
>>
>> We all love and embrace ARM. ARM is the unsung hero of processors and
>> I will hold dear to my Newton MP2000 with StrongARM forever but, we
>> don't have a Revolution engine able to run on ARM processors. We have
>> engines for:
>>
>>  x86       macs, win, linux
>>  ppc       macs
>>
>> Somewhere in the vaults of a Scottish FTP server are very old engines
>> for Bsd, Hp9k700, Iris, rs6000, SolSparc (SPARC!). These engines are
>> version 2.5.1 and still no ARM processor in there. Now, if you can get
>> Linux x86 ABI (does this exist?) running on the beagle board then you
>> can try.
>>
>> Now, if you want to play with small motherboards able to run Rev. You
>> may want to consider some Via based solution like a pico-ITX board. It
>> is as small as 10cm by 7cm and has a powerful 1ghz x86 processor.
>>
>> Here is a URL from the mini-itx store that can help you:
>> http://mini-itx.com/store/?c=39
>>
>> I have no affiliation with them and never tested one of their boards,
>> but it is a x86 processor from a good company with an attractive
>> price.
>>
>> Cheers
>> andre
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 1:39 PM, Neal Campbell <nealk3nc at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Is anyone using the new Beagle Board either for development or
>>> deployment of Rev programs? The link is http://beagleboard.org. I know
>>> that is is powerful enough that some of my bit-headed friends heavily
>>> into Software-Defined Radios will be using this as a platform (and
>>> that requires a pretty hefty system, mine is a Q6600 Intel system as
>>> an example).
>>>
>>> Looks like heaven for a kiosk or dedicated box/application enviornment for Rev!
>>>
>>> Best regards
>>> Neal
>>>
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