On Jun 27, 19:34, Doug Yowza wrote:
> Subject: Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was
Macintoshes..
> On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Pete Turnbull wrote:
>
> > On Jun 27, 16:50, Hotze wrote:
> > > Most Windows CE devices are based on HP/NEC PA-RISC (IIRC)
> > > processors, or SGI MIPS processors.
> >
> > Or Acorn/Digital StrongARM.
>
> Are you guys both smoking the same stuff? CE does not exist for PA-RISC
> or SGI MIPS, and while it does exist for Acorn/Digital/Intel ARM, it
> hasn't shipped on any real hardware platform that I know of.
>
> It has shipped on a couple of NEC MIPS derivatives and Hitachi SH.
MIPS chips are MIPS chips. SGI own MIPS, but don't manufacture the
devices. NEC, Philips, Toshiba, amongst others, do, but they didn't design
them. The VR4xxx series that NEC use are derivatives of the standard R4000
and R5000 series.
You're possibly right about ARM and CE, though. Several companies have
licenced the technology, but most of the ARM-based devices (eg the Psion 5,
Newton) use Psion's OS or JavaOS, not CE.
> There
> is also support for ARM, PPC, and x86, but I haven't heard of any
hardware
> shipping for those platforms.
> ObCC-Q: What was the first microprocessor-based box to run Unix?
>
> ObCC-A: The Z8000-based Onyx C8002 in 1980.
What about the 11/23 systems Bell Labs were using in 1978?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sun Jun 28 1998 - 05:40:31 BST