[Oberon] Pitch from AST: Minix on Beagleboard

[eas lab]

What's the power consumption on these boards?
I've been well impressed by the rPi, as a potential replacement PC;
but my everyday use is as a sound-player for TextToSpeech [I don't read
big text any more; I lie down & have them read to me like a baby].

But rPi seems to use 100-times the power of the <Chinese button sized
audio player>, which doesn't allow me to 'mark' the files as <read,
to be repeated ...etc.>

I'm getting interested in investigating some potential Oberon7 based
projects/products [even if I'm forced to use M$loth tools].
But I didn't get good info from Astobe's URL.

Also it's been pointed out that full-linux on rPi is no good for
even-nearly real time. Often rPi just <takes a coffee-break for
a few seconds> perhaps it's doing a garbage collection.

OTOH probably MIMIX is much less of a hog?
But then the <simple single-loop concept> OS of ETHO is even better.
But, I'm wondering how/why LinuxBasedETHO hangs the pid if I send
a NNTP-post and the communication cuts before it returns.
Obviously, the <send procedure> of ETHO 'hold' the CPU, and the
published <round-robin task polling> is prevented.
LEO has a "threaded" version/capabilty, which I've never tested,
because I prefer KeepItSimple.

==Chris Glur.


On 9/16/14, Frans-Pieter Vonck <fp at vonck.nl> wrote:
> Hello Oberoneurs,
>
>
> Here you can see Andy's Tanenbaum' s pitch at EW Neurenberg of the minix 3
> system running on a
> beagleboard.
> http://youtu.be/vlOsy0PZZyc?t=57s
>
> It could be an interesting example for porting oberon sytem to the arm.
> Especially if you look at how they solved driver issues.
>
> By the way, everybody is invited for Tanenbaum's retirement farewell
> lecture at
> 23 October 2014 in the Aula of the Vrije Universiteit,
> http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid/index.php
>
> Guess he has now he has time enough for porting minix to the FPGA, like
> Niklaus!
>
> Paul, do you already know Kees Jongenburger?
> https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/minix_3_on_arm/
>
>
> Greets,
> Frans-Pieter
>
>
>
>
>
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