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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?

Subject: Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?
From: chad_alberts@yahoo.com (Chad Alberts)
Date: 9 Aug 2001 03:00:00 -0700
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"T.J.T van Kooten" <thomas@-nospam-worldonline.nl> wrote in message news:<9ikva3$ple$1@nereid.worldonline.nl>...

> For the sake of argument let's suppose you could design a next generation
> $300 homecomputer. The goal is to make a userfriendly machine for general
> use and for hobbyists. How would such a system look?

I would go for something very simple: a very compact hand held or palm
pilot type machine with a 6502 or 65816 CPU, either 4 or 8 megs of
RAM, 320x200 / 640x400 LED display, a GEOS or Palm OS type operation
system: it would include both a kernal layer and a GUI layer so that
the GUI can be shut down by a program. It would be a machine that
could be used for something like a Gameboy
or a Palm Pilot but would include lot of IO ports for external extras
like keyboard, mouse, TV/VGA output, disk drive, hard drive or CD-ROM,
printer ect. and can be used as a simple home computer or web browser
as well as a control module for other hobby projects.

I would also include a built in assembler and another simple high
level languge like BasicX (which will allow inline asm like Turbo
Pascal does).

Oh, yeah... if possible I would also include network support so that
these hand held computers can be chained together. Maybe infrared IO
too.

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