Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 12:15:16 -0800 From: PhotoEngineering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] CPU Motherboard
I'll be using the P-M/P4 mobile coupled with FPGAs. It'll run x86 OSes. If you want to start a mailing list go ahead. I won't be releasing any proprietary info but the board will be reprogrammable so it can be used in different applications. Like I said from the start the board itself is generic, it can simply be made in the L form factor at a extra cost which I am still finding out but for this I need to sell enough to make up the difference. I will make custom boards but it will require upwards of 1000 or more boards minimum order or a nice big fat check:-). From what I have gathered there simply will not be enough Libretto customers to do anything custom (more-so than making it the right size and providing the proper connections and voltages) to do anything more for it. Such as the dock--there probably will not be a dock port--or if there is it'll be for other applications--although if there is a port it could be used as a dock. As far as bugs and such those will be handled but it'll be done through the standard customer service channels. This won't be some hacked together piece of shit just dumped out with us saying lots of luck after you've bought one:-). I doubt the design will be for sale though. For that there are plenty of other companies to approach Asus, IBM, Toshiba, Micro Industries if a person wants custom boards to release under the GPL license. They will charge a engineering fee for it but if a person wants to release something or have something released under GPL its better if you own the product. Heh--almost everyone I know is neither communist nor socialist, including myself, so we need to pay our own way--doesn't leave much room for freebies:-). But anyway--there will not be much more commented on this for a few months--by me anyway--you can start looking for more info after May-June or so. I only posted the oringinal message since I was wondering whether there'd be enough interest to produce this--seems to be--since I'd love to upgrade my own Libretto with one too!! I'll have a page on the PhotoEngineering web site around then with more information. You'll be able to email sales there with questions and comments and wish lists. Actually I WILL be very interested in reading wish lists on this around then so feel free. Another thing I'd like to know is whether people would be interested in a transflective TFT LCD to replace the old one. Be great on battery life and for outdoor use. Also whether people would be interested in white LED backlighting instead of the present CCFL. John [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:45 PM 12/3/03, you wrote: >Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 05:37:43 +0100 >From: Miernik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] CPU Motherboard > >On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 05:31:32PM -0800, PhotoEngineering wrote: > > > <a little snippage> ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
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