Zaurus and Python, a good combination

[David LeBlanc]

News to me that Intel crushed Digital with their patents... and BTW, ARM is
an english production (http://www.arm.com/) that Digital was a 2nd source
for. Did Digital make some important enhancements to the ARM architecture? I
vaguely recall some fab improvements they where given credit for...

IMO Digital fell due to bad management (more like stupid, incompetent),
brain-dead marketing, greed and de-emphasis of and inabilty to apply R&D to
the marketplace.

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Kragen Sitaker
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 17:57
> To: python-list at python.org
> Subject: Re: Zaurus and Python, a good combination
>
>
> "David LeBlanc" <whisper at oz.net> writes:
> > ppc = Pocket PC
>
> Oh, sorry --- I assumed you meant the other PPC.
>
> > Speaking of power, I saw some mention that the new x-scale arm
> processors
> > use less power at 2x the speed of the current arm processor. Damn - more
> > battery life! :-)
>
> That's awesome!  It's too bad Intel crushed Digital with their
> patents.  The StrongARM was significantly faster than the x86 line
> (for integer code) when it was introduced, but it hadn't gotten any
> faster in five years or so.  Perhaps if Digital was still around, we'd
> have 2GHz StrongARMs now.
>
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