I do. I believe that it will be 'ultimate' low-power/low-performace platform to play with
(but then we have started developing U++ when 200Mhz Pentium I was standard target platform for U++ apps. 700Mhz ARM should be just fine for running theide. And BLITZ can possibly make compilation bearable
mr_ped Messages: 826 Registered: November 2005 Location: Czech Republic - Praha
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I'm looking on it as well, not sure what I would do with one, but $35 sounds right to me. Actually it's crazy, considering the computing power of that board. (700MHz RISC processor and OGL chip if I understand the specs correctly)
Let me know for sure if you get one finally and how does it work. (maybe time for another Prague live session to see U++ running on it )
I'm looking on it as well, not sure what I would do with one, but $35 sounds right to me. Actually it's crazy, considering the computing power of that board. (700MHz RISC processor and OGL chip if I understand the specs correctly)
Let me know for sure if you get one finally and how does it work. (maybe time for another Prague live session to see U++ running on it )
I'm looking on it as well, not sure what I would do with one, but $35 sounds right to me. Actually it's crazy, considering the computing power of that board. (700MHz RISC processor and OGL chip if I understand the specs correctly)
Let me know for sure if you get one finally and how does it work. (maybe time for another Prague live session to see U++ running on it )
Actually, I have hoped for sooner date
Mirek
Ops, now I see this could be interpreted two ways. I meant sooner date for 'live session'. I do not expect Pi to available sooner than next year...
Quite attractive at that price, although shipping costs may well make it less attractive. Thanks for the pointer. I remember that the name didn't catch my attention when I read it some time ago while browsing the ReactOS forums. On the other hand, it is only a naked board and you'd probably get similar hardware if you bought one of these ultra-low-cost laptops on eBay (prices vary depending on screen size (7 to 10.2 inch) and processor speed (266 to 800 MHz) between around 75 and 125 USD including shipping), which appear to be around since late 2009.
There is some interesting hardware around that should be capable of decently running graphical applications at a cost lower than what you'd pay for an ordinary computer. As you say 200 MHz processors used to be a target for U++ applications, I wonder whether it would be possible to get U++ applications running on independently developed hardware, driven for instance by modern microcontrollers like the upcoming version of the Parallax Propeller, perhaps also without any or with a custom operating system (could Rainbow be used for that?). I for one would very welcome U++ support for embedded targets.
Quite attractive at that price, although shipping costs may well make it less attractive. Thanks for the pointer. I remember that the name didn't catch my attention when I read it some time ago while browsing the ReactOS forums. On the other hand, it is only a naked board and you'd probably get similar hardware if you bought one of these ultra-low-cost laptops on eBay (prices vary depending on screen size (7 to 10.2 inch) and processor speed (266 to 800 MHz) between around 75 and 125 USD including shipping), which appear to be around since late 2009.
Yes. I am quite aware about it, but I guess the difference this time is in software support. IMO it is much better to have it running some latest Linux SW out of hand than spending time jailbreaking and installing something.
Also, for real fun, using ordinary LCD display with reasonable resolution and normal keyboard/mice is better...
drjo1952 Messages: 7 Registered: December 2008 Location: Tucson, AZ
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We have Ultimate++ running on Gumstix, Freescale i.MX53 (loco), and the Pandaboard, including full native IDE compilation on the arm platform itself (no cross-compilation required). Native compilation can only be done on the Gumstix with 512MB of memory since the linking stage of IDE build and application build takes lots of memory. Native compiles are somewhat slow on these arm platforms but are considerably sped up if a SATA drive is used to host the operating system. (SATA support is available directly on the Freescale and is available with a USB to SATA adapter on the other platforms). We have several active programs using arm-based Ultimate++ executables running critical embedded apps and more are coming all the time. Unfortunately, the details of most of the apps are ITAR controlled but we are willing to share some basic configuration details and examples if people are interested...
Scott Tilden, PhD
Denton Research Group, U of Arizona
I never had the opportunity to use that myself, but a friend of mine uses 2 under Linux Voyage : one as firewall and another as IPBX with Asterisk. According to him, it's a very cheap and good solution !
Didier Messages: 725 Registered: November 2008 Location: France
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Hello Scott,
I will be using U++ on an ARM board shortly along with LCD screen and touchpad, not quite sure which model of board yet (Rasberry-PI availability isn't good enough for the moment).
So if you have a config examples, UPP modifications It would save me a bunch of time !!!
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