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The fact it could boot up an X server is quite extraordinary. Since it was designed explicitly to serve that purpose, I'm not sure why it's 'extraordinary'. D
by kjs3 3y ago
The fact it could boot up an X server is quite extraordinary.
Since it was designed explicitly to serve that purpose, I'm not sure why it's 'extraordinary'.
Disclaimer: I spent time at a 34010 X terminal shop.
- rbanffy 3y ago> Since it was designed explicitly to serve that purpose, I never imagined that. Now I'm surprised there were no desktop computers based on it. I knew the Intel 860 and 960 were designed as computers and got some usage as that, but I never knew the 34010 and 34020 were like that.
- kjs3 3y agoThe biggest value prop of the 34010 was "save money and time because you don't need a separate CPU and GPU to make an Xterm (or similar graphics device)...it's all in one chip". And, at the time, the Xterm was going to be the desktop computer (see: The network is the computer). The other value prop is "just code to our TIGA standard and your code will run on all the many tms340 devices that are going to be out there". That didn't work out either.