{"id":1271,"date":"2006-09-23T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2006-09-24T02:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1271"},"modified":"2007-10-15T23:39:54","modified_gmt":"2007-10-16T02:39:54","slug":"more-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1271","title":{"rendered":"More Hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">A<\/span>lfons <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1269#comment-559\">earlier<\/a> <a id=\"p1270\" rel=\"attachment\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1270\" title=\"One Chip MSX \"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/09\/ocm-overview.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"One Chip MSX \" \/><\/a>pointed to Basix, a company that recently released the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bazix.nl\/onechipmsx.html\">One Chip MSX<\/a>, a  computer that is compatible with the MSX1\/MSX2 standard<sup>1<\/sup> (A press kit can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bazix.nl\/presskit.html\">be found here<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>Actually, the box is supposed to do more than just emulating MSX\/MSX2s: the main processor is actually a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Programmable_logic_device\">programmable logic device<\/a>, which means that it should be able (according to the specs of that processor) to emulate other home-computers (Back in the days, quite a lot computers <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Z-80\">carried Z-80 processors<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n<p>It looks like the One Chip MSX comes with the typical two cartridge slots but not with (the typical) diskdrive(s). That said, the concept is neat.\n<\/p>\n<p>Back to Linux: Slashdot carried a posting about D-Link and GPL violations <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/yro\/06\/09\/23\/1655248.shtml\">in one of D-Link wireless devices<\/a> (purportedly the device contained a modified Linux kernel). Earlier, D-Link undersigned the cease-and-desist order and halted distribution of the device <a href=\"http:\/\/gpl-violations.org\/news\/20060922-dlink-judgement_frankfurt.html\">but refused to reimburse the lawyer bills of the complaintant<\/a> by suggesting that:\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"quote\">&#8220;Regardless of the repeatedly-quoted judgement of the district court of Munich<br \/>\n I, we do not <em>consider the GPL as legally binding<\/em>.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>OK. You can laugh now.\n<\/p>\n<p>The last device I noticed was at Hauppage: The company recently released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hauppauge.com\/pages\/products\/data_wmvp.html\">wireless mediaplayer<\/a> which is (surprisingly) powered by a penguin and a PowerPC processor.\n<\/p>\n<p><small><sup>1<\/sup> For more on MSX, see also <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MSX\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msx.org\/\">MSX.org<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alfons earlier pointed to Basix, a company that recently released the One Chip MSX, a computer that is compatible with the MSX1\/MSX2 standard1 (A press kit can be found here). Actually, the box is supposed to do more than just &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1271\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[188],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}