Re: Squeak Box

> > How does Mini-ITX cmpare with PC-104?  Is there a smaller OS or is a big
> > Linux really needed for those of us who aren't primarily systems
> > programmers?  And does Squeak perform like Dolphin yet?  Thanks.
>
> It's been a while since I was up on the Dolphin work, and I prefer to
> offer possibilities and let others evaluate them.
>
> What is good about the Squeak Box, and why we pushed it through to
> completion, is that you can do pretty much whatever you like in Squeak
> on any old Mac or Windows machine, move the image over to a CF card,
> and poof you have a product.  The price is nice and there seems to be
> a decent future in the ITX line (probably for PC-104, too).
>
> Regarding performance, as you will find if you check out the links, we
> get 17,362,995 bytecodes/sec and 736,717 sends/sec on the low power
> (533 MHz) processor. There are faster ITX boards (I know 1GHz is
> common), but this is the one we're using.  My guess is Dolphin is
> faster at some things and slower at some, but I don't know all the
> details of their BitBlt, 3-D, Sound, numerics, etc.  Maybe you could
> put a PC-104 Dolphin next to a Mini-ITX Squeak for a sort of battle of
> the Lilliputians.
>
> And, by the way, Dolphin should run just fine on the Mini-ITX, with
> our Linux.  "Just" slip a Linux exectable onto the Squeak Flash and
> run it.