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| From | Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.misc |
| Subject | Re: Everything is broken |
| Date | 2015-04-10 14:43 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <coq5stF7rd4U13@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | (6 earlier) <X8BVw.192690$zE7.149066@fx40.am4> <mg6ngt$gnl$1@dont-email.me> <9OBVw.288370$396.67792@fx12.am4> <mg771n$a0m$1@dont-email.me> <W1NVw.132865$oZ4.28937@fx38.am4> |
On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 10:50:41 +0100, BartC wrote: > On 10/04/2015 01:56, Dan Espen wrote: >> BartC <bc@freeuk.com> writes: > >>> What OS does it use (if it uses anything at all)? I don't know, don't >>> care and shouldn't need to know; it's a dedicated device for storing >>> and reading books, and shouldn't be that much more difficult to use >>> than a real book. >> >> Kindle runs a version of Linux. > > I should have known. > > A Kindle consists mainly of solid state storage, a display, a processor > and some crude interface. Not much different from the hardware I used to > build in the 80s. It hardly needs an OS at all. > > However it also has a USB interface and especially WiFi (with all the > internet stuff the latter will use). These are too complex to write > drivers for from scratch, so it's necessary to import a large amount of > baggage. I have a Kindle Keyboard, but have now stopped using it. It has 3GB of memory. Once I'd used 1GB of that, it became unacceptably slow to navigate to different books (page turning was OK). And searches were *very* slow. Some really crappy algorithms in there. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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Everything is broken RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2015-04-06 21:18 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-06 18:45 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-07 22:26 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2015-04-09 16:08 +0200
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-09 10:50 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2015-04-09 17:19 +0200
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-09 11:43 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-09 17:16 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-09 12:25 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-09 21:18 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-09 16:31 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-09 22:02 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-09 20:56 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-10 10:50 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 09:17 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-10 15:27 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 11:04 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-10 16:35 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 13:01 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-11 21:48 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-11 22:22 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dario Niedermann <dnied@tiscali.it> - 2015-04-12 16:44 +0200
Re: Everything is broken Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-12 17:04 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-04-10 16:54 +0100
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-11 22:24 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-04-10 20:11 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-04-10 20:17 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 17:02 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-10 22:53 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 17:55 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-12 13:52 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2015-04-12 19:15 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-04-12 19:23 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-12 23:30 -0400
Re: Everything is broken BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-04-13 10:34 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-04-13 20:08 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-04-13 21:16 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-04-13 16:27 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Bob Eager <news0005@eager.cx> - 2015-04-10 14:43 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 11:08 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-04-10 20:54 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2015-04-10 01:56 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Hils <hils@saynotospam.net> - 2015-04-07 22:27 +0100
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-07 19:16 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-09 19:11 -0700
Re: Everything is broken Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 02:05 -0700
Re: Everything is broken Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2015-04-10 20:22 +0000
Re: Everything is broken Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2015-04-11 01:49 +0200
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 09:10 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 13:57 -0700
Re: Everything is broken Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-04-10 17:14 -0400
Re: Everything is broken Oregonian Haruspex <bob_davis_retired@yahoo.com> - 2015-04-10 18:42 -0700
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