What's the power consumption on these boards? I've been well impressed by the rPi, as a potential replacement PC; but my everyday use is as a sound-player for TextToSpeech [I don't read big text any more; I lie down & have them read to me like a baby]. But rPi seems to use 100-times the power of the <Chinese button sized audio player>, which doesn't allow me to 'mark' the files as <read, to be repeated ...etc.> I'm getting interested in investigating some potential Oberon7 based projects/products [even if I'm forced to use M$loth tools]. But I didn't get good info from Astobe's URL. Also it's been pointed out that full-linux on rPi is no good for even-nearly real time. Often rPi just <takes a coffee-break for a few seconds> perhaps it's doing a garbage collection. OTOH probably MIMIX is much less of a hog? But then the <simple single-loop concept> OS of ETHO is even better. But, I'm wondering how/why LinuxBasedETHO hangs the pid if I send a NNTP-post and the communication cuts before it returns. Obviously, the <send procedure> of ETHO 'hold' the CPU, and the published <round-robin task polling> is prevented. LEO has a "threaded" version/capabilty, which I've never tested, because I prefer KeepItSimple. ==Chris Glur. On 9/16/14, Frans-Pieter Vonck <fp@vonck.nl> wrote:
Hello Oberoneurs,
Here you can see Andy's Tanenbaum' s pitch at EW Neurenberg of the minix 3 system running on a beagleboard. http://youtu.be/vlOsy0PZZyc?t=57s
It could be an interesting example for porting oberon sytem to the arm. Especially if you look at how they solved driver issues.
By the way, everybody is invited for Tanenbaum's retirement farewell lecture at 23 October 2014 in the Aula of the Vrije Universiteit, http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid/index.php
Guess he has now he has time enough for porting minix to the FPGA, like Niklaus!
Paul, do you already know Kees Jongenburger? https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/minix_3_on_arm/
Greets, Frans-Pieter
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