"A Chinese company called YellowSheepRiver wants to make affordable budget computing a reality with its new $150 Linux Municator, a highly compact and innovative PC built with inexpensive Chinese hardware components. Although MIT's much touted $100 Linux laptop has yet to transcend its status as vaporware, YellowSheepRiver already has a working product which could potentially be available for purchase within the next three months." It runs on a custom 64 bit processor, derived from the MIPS processor, and as a result won't run Windows.
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Ordinarily I don't think your typical pirate would be able to do anything with a Flash only system but..
A few years back MS was touting NT3.5 for embedded use in ROM form at the Embedded Show, still I doubt even Windows geeks could fix up a modern Windows that could fit in such a small flash, kinda moot. CE though a different matter.
As for swap, I usually run W2K with no or a tiny 20M swap.
For the BLX machine, I wonder if the early MIPs version of NT could boot, I still have my Alpha/PPC/MIPs/x86 cds. I don't recall anys apps though beyond x86.
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I haven't seen the MIT mobo so I have no idea if it has actual or temporary ATX, 4pin power or IDE connectors, any pics anywhere?
If has no IDE and ATX connector you would be up the creek except maybe through a USB port perhaps.
I doubt it has them, if it did that would invite exactly the upgrades they said shouldn't happen. Also picture how much power these laptops use v the same with an external running HD. A cheap regular 3.5 inch HD needs about 10W (guessing) esp peak startup current. The 2.5inch HDs need far less but cost several times as much. Would that work off a cranking system, doubt it. If one is prepared to go to the trouble of jigging an ATX supply with HD and "cabinet", one might as well get a decent budget mobo & cpu which can be special offer <<$100 or so. Back to square one.
It reminds me 20yrs ago of the BBCs at 400quid v the poor little Electron for 100quid. Well there were these dodgy upgrades to try and boost the Electron into a Beeb, and the Timex/Sinclair upgrades too.
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Well whats to stop them from taking off what ever Linux MIT puts on it anyway and putting on the same pirated Windows.
The point is that the locals should define their own distro rather than some head in MIT. Anyway I would have thought Windows would perform pretty badly on the Geode and the small flash store, what version of Windows do you think will work so well?