It would help if you could explain what you found lacking in their X-implementation. And I don't understand what you mean by

scalability in

the context of a Simputer.

One of the biggest problems with the Simputer is it uses X.

| If you have to make |a group of simputers work to help people you will have to rewrite

hazzar stuff

Group of simputers working together to do what? I hope you

understand that

Simputer is not for highend distributed computing.

Just the fact that they are using X makes it straight away lean towards distributed computing. Do you know the power a StrongARM@206Mhz offers (remember its a RISC machine)? Its tremendous, putting it in a sickly handheld capable of doing the current things is like recruiting Arnold Schwarzenegger to pour you a glass of milk everyday.

What Somesh probably meant by working together is networking... Devices so small should be able to network effortlessly with not just with their own kind, but also with desktop machines.

| I agree with mayuresh that |a group of engineers can't make something worth the hype of

simputer .

|In its present design simputer is useless piece of silicon.

May be it is. May be it is not. But we should reason why it is or

why it

is not.

The reasoning will continue...

~Mayuresh