Comments on: Maple rev3 on Sale and In Stock Now (hooray!) http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray Sat, 12 May 2012 21:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Doc http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-264 Doc Tue, 06 Jul 2010 15:54:40 +0000 http://leaflabs.com/?p=955#comment-264 Well, we could always work on a FreeDOS port! W00t! Let's run Win 3.1!!! ;) But in all seriousness, this looks like an awesome board! Well, we could always work on a FreeDOS port! W00t!

Let’s run Win 3.1!!!

;)

But in all seriousness, this looks like an awesome board!

]]> By: poslathian http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-217 poslathian Wed, 26 May 2010 18:28:52 +0000 http://leaflabs.com/?p=955#comment-217 oh boy......ANYWAY, there are some decent OS's for cortex m3 out there. They wont run firefox or anything, but freeRTOS and circleOS are both good alternatives. However, IMHO, the great thing about embedded is that youre so close to the metal, that 72MHz feels like an awful lot more, you can direct each one of your cycles to do some exact thing, without some OS abstracting away your system level access. oh boy……ANYWAY, there are some decent OS’s for cortex m3 out there. They wont run firefox or anything, but freeRTOS and circleOS are both good alternatives. However, IMHO, the great thing about embedded is that youre so close to the metal, that 72MHz feels like an awful lot more, you can direct each one of your cycles to do some exact thing, without some OS abstracting away your system level access.

]]> By: Stric http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Stric Wed, 26 May 2010 14:18:56 +0000 http://leaflabs.com/?p=955#comment-216 Oh Peter. Why re-invent the wheel? Linux is a main stream platform for embedded systems. If you want to write your own OS thats fine, but most people would enjoy just using a flavor of Linux. And most people don't know how to program an OS, but they sure know how to use one. When you need tools to work on your car, do you build them from scratch? Oh Peter. Why re-invent the wheel? Linux is a main stream platform for embedded systems. If you want to write your own OS thats fine, but most people would enjoy just using a flavor of Linux. And most people don’t know how to program an OS, but they sure know how to use one.

When you need tools to work on your car, do you build them from scratch?

]]> By: Peter http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Peter Wed, 26 May 2010 04:10:28 +0000 http://leaflabs.com/?p=955#comment-214 Perhaps it would be more fun to write our own operating systems and routines instead of shoving the ubiquitous Linux on yet another small embedded platform. Perhaps it would be more fun to write our own operating systems and routines instead of shoving the ubiquitous Linux on yet another small embedded platform.

]]> By: poslathian http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-212 poslathian Tue, 25 May 2010 23:50:07 +0000 http://leaflabs.com/?p=955#comment-212 Unfortunately the cortex M3 lacks an MMU, an essential piece of hardware for managing virtual memory for hardcore OS work (like android). I think there are some *nix based kernels that dont need it, and running linux on cortex m3 would be a ridiculous and amazing hack. The beagleboard has a cortex A8 on it, which will definitely run android. Wed love to start playing with that chip. Unfortunately the cortex M3 lacks an MMU, an essential piece of hardware for managing virtual memory for hardcore OS work (like android). I think there are some *nix based kernels that dont need it, and running linux on cortex m3 would be a ridiculous and amazing hack. The beagleboard has a cortex A8 on it, which will definitely run android. Wed love to start playing with that chip.

]]> By: doc.dawning.ca/ http://leaflabs.com/2010/05/maple-r3-on-sale-and-in-stock-now-hooray/comment-page-1/#comment-209 doc.dawning.ca/ Tue, 25 May 2010 17:12:56 +0000 http://leaflabs.com/?p=955#comment-209 Sweet stuff! Looks fun. I wonder if I could run Android on this (with some decent interfacing hardware) or perhaps Ubuntu for ARM..? Sweet stuff! Looks fun. I wonder if I could run Android on this (with some decent interfacing hardware) or perhaps Ubuntu for ARM..?

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