OLPC - Hardware and Software<< OLPC - The Vision | Main | OLPC - Overview >> Michael Gartenberg | April 27, 2007, 09:38 AM Here are the specs of the device that were outlined: The two key differentiating features were the support for Mesh Networks, the Dual Mode display for indoor and outdoor use and the low power consumption. 700mhz AMD x86 Processor The costs were given as the following approximations: Software stack is as follows. Open Firmware. FORTH interpreter. Linux, X-Windows, Matchbox WIndows Manager, Sugar User Experience. Kids can drill down all the way into FORTH if you want to. GDK libraries are currently being used for things like file/open for now. Will be secondary. Journaling is core to the experience.The primary mechanism to interact with the XO is a temporal UI. The machine automatically creates a portfolio of work and backs up everything to Google. (every kid has a Google acc't). There's also a school server School server which is a standard configuration of software sitting on any i86. The server acts as special node on the mesh, actually three nodes on the mesh, which segments the mesh. I'll post more details on the actual apps installed later and what it was like working with some of them on the prototype machine I used. Negroponte said the machine could run some form of Windows but had no details what version it was or what it could do Only that Microsoft had some XO machines and had some version of Windows running on it. It was not clear if this is the $3 version of Windows that has been widely reported on. |
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