[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] ipkg vs dpkg

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Zeeshan Ali wrote:
>>Repeat after me: "the 770 is not an embedded system".  It is a small
>>computer with neither a qwerty keyboard nor a big hard drive, nor a
>>really fast processor.
> 
> 
>    You are kidding, right? Anything is an embedded system if it:
> 
> 1. has a small memory and secondary storage
> 2. has a slow processor
> 3. is intended to serve some 'specific' purpose(s).

Most of the computers I owned (from XT to the first ibm cyrix CPUs) have
a slower cpu, less ram and less storage than the 770 and served "some
'specific' purpose(s)" are these embedded systems too?
Are the new sharp pda models (400MHz Xscale, 64MB ram, 4GB microdrive,
keyboard) embedded systems or not?
The label 'embedded' is fuzzy and in boils down to 'no real keyboard'
most of the times.

>    How do you define an 'embedded system'?

I usually try not to :). The term 'embedded' gets misused almost as
often as people calling NAND/NOR flash 'ROM'.

regards,

Koen


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