On Tue 10 December 2013 21:12:02 Bernard Schelberg wrote: > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: joerg Reisenweber <jo...@openmoko.org> > > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > > Cc: > > Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 01:00:13 +0100 > > Subject: Re: the second operating system > > > > On Mon 09 December 2013 19:32:28 Norayr Chilingarian wrote: > > > There is an osnews article named "The second operating system hiding in > > > every mobile phone", and I guess some people in this list may be > > > interested. Not that we didn't know about it, just wanted to share an > > > article with you. > > > > > > http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_system_hiding_in > > > _eve ry_mobile_phone > > > > This article is of pretty poor quality and quite misleading. :-S > > Deprecated! > > Do you have a better article on this subject that you can recommend? > Or could you explain some more about how it is misleading? The reason > I ask is that I'm having an ongoing conversation with colleagues about > why I continue to support projects that are working to bring us a free > phone. I thought the article referenced made some convincing points, > but I don't want to quote it if it's incorrect.
The article completely lacks any discussion of how entangled or not entangled the modem is with the "first OS". On dumbphones there's even no "first OS" at all and the whole phone UI is handled by the modem OS. While on free phones like GTA0x and Neo900[1] the modem is as much a part of "the first OS" as e.g. a USB stick you plug to your PC is running a "second OS" on your PC. We actually have ~12 .. 15 "other OSes" running on any modern PC or smartphone, basically every smart chip comes with its own CPU that of course needs an "OS". The modem is just another extremely large and smart "chip" of that category, but it's not at all entangled with the primary OS - ON FREE PHONES. For the usually android crap things look different, since often main CPU and modem share same chip and same RAM and you never can tell what the modem OS could do to the main OS. Hope that explained a bit of what I miss in that article. It's not incorrect but simply not comprehensive and thus misleading. A modem OS is exactly NOT similar to a PC BIOS "second OS" (see my other post). The article creates such misconceptions. cheers jOERG [1] http://neo900.org/faq#privacy -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments (alas the above page got scrapped due to resignation(!!), so here some supplementary links:) http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil.shtml http://www.nonhtmlmail.org/campaign.html http://www.georgedillon.com/web/html_email_is_evil_still.shtml http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii/ (German)
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