[bookport] Re: Firmware
- From: "David Tanner" <david-tanner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 23:49:43 -0600
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:
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: If anyone can tell me the difference between firmware (BP system0 and
: windows I would be interested?
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: What the BP uses seems to be an operating system.
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: Rod
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