[bookport] Re: Firmware
- From: "Walt Smith" <walt@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 15:31:53 -0500
As has been stated before, the Book Port has no operating system. It is not
a computer.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Kennedy" <jkenn337@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 1:07 PM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Firmware
But isn't Windows ce a similar operating system to that of the bookport?
Josh
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 12:49 AM
Subject: [bookport] Re: Firmware
> How many hours do you have?
>
> I am not really trying to be brash here. Windows is basicly an operating
> system also, but that said there are a lot of different operating systems.
> And, those operating systems take widely different amounts of memory
> depending on how sophisticated the system is, and what the goals are for
> the operating system in its' current version.
>
> The other thing is that Windows is based on a disk based operating system
> that loads itself every time you turn on the system. BookPort's operating
> system is hardware based so that as soon as you turn it on it is ready to
> go without booting up the system and waiting for the operating system to
> get loaded into memory. This means that all of the operating system has
> to be in memory and ready to go when you turn on your BookPort, and in a
> system the size of a BookPort there are some physical limitatiions on how
> much internal memory one can have to support a hardware based operating
> system.
>
> As has been pointed out in a variety of ways on the list, one has to look
> at what the focus of the BookPort is in order to realize that the type of
> operating system it uses is the best for the type of device that it is,
> one where the user does not want to wait several minutes before they can
> start using the system.
>
> I hope that helps!!!
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "optus rod" <rodsalzman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 8:20 PM
> Subject: [bookport] Firmware
>
>
> : Hi:
> :
> : If anyone can tell me the difference between firmware (BP system0 and
> : windows I would be interested?
> :
> : What the BP uses seems to be an operating system.
> :
> : Rod
> :
> :
> :
>
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