nanogui: SetTop box Development [sorta an advert]
Subject:
SetTop box Development [sorta an advert]
From:
"Darran D. Rimron-Molloy" ####@####.####
Date:
29 Jan 2002 08:02:58 -0000
Message-Id: <HAEDKNJBOGMNPFLJGKNKCEFGCCAA.ddrm@digital-science.net>
Ok,
Bush Internet.TV has gone bankrupt :) Only £17.9mil in debt. They have
an ABUNDANCE of kit left over (I think at the last count approx 30,000
units) at retailers across the UK - they were, the weekend past,
retailing at around £9.99 each at a TIme special, £19.99 at Toys'R'Us
with a Tenner mailback rebate, probably a few places on the net wanna
get rid of them too - have a google.
I got one, of course, and they will run Linux, a port is already
underway - I think they will make good setup boxen, apparently the
hardware alone lists at £200 cost, they are ARM based, 33k6 modem, PC
Style Parallel Port [D-Link-620 anyone?], Custom IR, and SCART ports and
contain, internally jumpers for 2 additional RS232 ports (on top of the
2 already in use), PS2 Kb & Mouse, IDE, Floppy, Gameport and probably
others I have forgotten etc, etc - They also come with an IR Keyboard &
Mouse-ish, albeit a crap one (you can buy a better one, apparently, am
yet to see it at a discount price - List ~£30, IIRC) and are currently
running a cutdown version of Ant & RiscOS. Finally, the innards of the
Cirrus Logic/ARM CPU used seems to be VERY well documented :)
Thought I woudl post a general "heads up" for people to keep an eye open
for, should they be interested....
Just thought of it as another ViewML/NanoX platform, that's why I bought
mine :)
-Happy Hacking
Darran
