Encore developed the hardware and the IISc guys developed or rather put together the software, there are just a few instances where the IISc guys have litterally written the device drivers (I had
IISc developed IML, the IML browser, text to speech converter for
hindi
and kannada, integration of tts into IMLI, tapatap and some other
user
space stuff. All system level stuff was taken from linux development with minor changes.
The IML browser (Imli) is actually "Chimera"... Actually I don't think they "developed" tapatap, but rather implemented one of the free handwritting recognition algorithms.
I think most of the System level stuff (including the kernel) were taken from the StrongARM Linux port (I think that was the LART project)
But they sure did a great job of implementing those technologies, better than re-inventing the wheel :-)
~Mayuresh
imli, IML , blah blah I have read every damn thing on there site .I am a small time linux and font enthusiast and have heard enough about this simputer in the media. So I down loaded all the stuff I could get from there site , wen't and met one of the profs in the CSA dept IISc bangalore who is supposed to have done work on it. Sorry to say but when I compare the design of simputer with visor or Palm PC I find it lacking , primitive and not "very" scalable. I am here to critisize there X implementation , font rendering , and this IML thing is totally lacking in harmony with anything else. If you have to make a group of simputers work to help people you will have to rewrite hazzar stuff in Palm market (which is even open source) . 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.
somesh
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On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Somesh wrote:
|I find it lacking , primitive and not "very" scalable. |I am here to critisize there X implementation , font rendering , and this IML |thing is totally lacking in harmony with anything else.
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.
| 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.
| 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.
With regards, Vijil
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