Slow Phone
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The Free Thinker  managed managed to disassemble the phone  [1] to find
out  if it  is actually  slower  than my  early 1990s  SGI IRIS  Indigo
workstation  [2]. I  really recommend  the post  [1] to  all interested
readers - it's very interesting.

I  must confess  that my  own phone  (the Punkt  MP01) is  not actually
slower than my workstation. It might  be slower in OpenGL operations, I
hope. Chances are low anyway because that SGI has only limited hardware
acceleration  (it has  the Entry  graphics board)  so -  in theory  - a
software implementation  of OpenGL on a  1 GHz ARM CPU  will outperform
the 100 MHz MIPS supported by a  few limited chips. But there is no way
how to test it...


Anyway, I also  use the Treo 180  which is actually slower:  it has the
Motorola Dragon  Ball CPU at 33  MHz (no floating point  coprocessor, I
think) and 16 MB  of RAM! My Indigo has 100 MHz MIPS  CPU and 128 MB of
RAM so it must be much faster! It actually is - the SGI runs the Gopher
client easily (the  Lynx) in many instances smoothly and  the poor Treo
has a lot a work wit just one instance!


Anyway, it is great that there actually is a Gopher cliend for Palm [3]
and I am very, very grateful to Cameron Kaiser for making it.

At  least  I  can  confirm  that  OpenGL  on  a  Nokia  770  tablet  (a
software-only renderer  is here) is WAY  SLOWER than the same  scene on
the IRIS Indigo with the Entry graphics :-). I know that the 770 is not
a phone.


References:

[1] gopher://aussies.space/0/%7efreet/phlog/2022-07-06Jirka_Made_Me_Pull_my_Phone_Apart.txt
[2] gopher://sdf.org:70/0/users/jirka/Phlog/2022_07_01.txt
[3] http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2022/06/overbite-palm-02.html

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