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How long until there's a commercial product that has a built in LLM? Some device that is like a personal encyclopedia that you can ask about anything?
This brings back happy memories. I was lucky enough to have the precursor, an Acorn Pocket Book, as part of my school curriculum. I lost it a few years ago in a move but I can still remember the the distinctive "device" smell (probably the case material). I yearned for the additional memory of the Psion 2. I would write lengthy stories that would fill up the memory. No off-device storage. I'd have to delete entries o…
I've recently gotten into birding as an adult, and have heard that in some parts of the world basic bird identification is part of the curriculum (e.g. the Netherlands). If you don't mind me asking, what country/region did you go to school in? Was this the initiative of one teacher, or something more standardized?
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Better ask, how many things you could do per watt now , if software had that era's leanness?
Well, UX is a spectrum. You can do things instantly on a very old machine if you don't mind using a cli. If what you want to do is a game, you can't get Cyberpunk, but you can get Pacman.
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Ive looked for a 5mx form factor in the form of a phone and not been able to find it.
Did you find the Gemini PDA and friends? It's very very similar.
What I really loved about the 5 was that it could run Java. I think it never got past JDK 1.0.2, or maybe 1.1. But it was clunky to use. I wrote a little shell for it, which provided basic functionality, including much simpler compiling and execution of java code. (http://geophile.com/jshell. It should still run, except that it relies on an obsolete parser.)
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There do exist things like the Gemini and the Astro Slide, which I've always looked at as a potential replacement, but they always seem to just miss the mark. The closest I've come to the same sort of experience was the Nokia N900, which was remarkable in a lot of ways.
I'm still waiting for delivery on the Astro Slide after ordering it over a year ago. As it was on IndieGogo, I can't even get my money back. Probably best to avoid Planet Computers - they lie about availability and delivery dates.
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Ive looked for a 5mx form factor in the form of a phone and not been able to find it.
Planet Computers? https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/
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I think that looking at it from a MHz standpoint is a red herring. How many things can you do per watt now, than you could per watt then?
And power consumption is a —among other things— a function of transistor size and process. A lot has changed in 30 years, but our methods of programming these things has veered towards incredible wastefulness.
Those standards were also set by the limitations of hardware, not because people had the will to do better back then.
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Ive looked for a 5mx form factor in the form of a phone and not been able to find it.
Planet Computers? https://www.www3.planetcom.co.uk/
The PinePhone with its keyboard addon should fix most if not all issues the Gemini PDA had, but it looked so similar I still couldn't bring myself to get the keyboard for it. Plus I don't like the layout at all.
MNT Pocket Reform seems very promising (but expensive). Good layout and reprogrammable keyboard. Not stuck on an old Android version.