A bit of Open Pandora history


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Here's what i received a while back, when my GP2X (or Wiz ?) arrived home. Kinda Kickstarter ad.

Lost this bit of paper, put my hand on it some days ago.

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It's 1Gb RAM (Gigabit, not Gigabyte).


I remember he used that back then as it sounded better.


A lot of companies actually did something like that.
 
It's 1Gb RAM (Gigabit, not Gigabyte)
If you spell it Gb it's very much prone to confusion, especially in the world of computers where Gigabit is almost never used. This is usually a console thing.
Well duh, Craig isn't the first person ever to use marketing speak... I've seen many many many other companies trying to take advantage of the confusion to make something lesser sound more impressive.

At least here we had the GP32X boards to discuss and clarify what 1Gb of RAM actually meant.

The original Pandora boards had 128MBytes of RAM. I think they only went out as devboards to Notaz, Pickle, Skeezix and Squidge(... oh where is Squidge btw!?) and maybe some other devs.
 
Craig isn't the first person ever to use marketing speak...
Come on, don't try to find him excuses. Using 1Gb in that way is just blatantly dishonest on advertising, especially coming from a Linux/hacker community.

And it's not like it did it only once. Just look on the boards for everything he said before and how it actually turned out to be.
 
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You do realise how out of date the info on that thing is, right?

The 3D HW is OGL2.0 capable but ImagineTek never provided a driver to support this since the SoC was originally intended for mobile phone and such GLES1 or GLES2 would suffice.

The exact same chip was used in some Atom based netbooks with drivers allowing OGL2.0 support.
 
Ah...I remember those :)

And before everybody go harping on the technical inaccuracies, do remember that it took 3 more years and changes in both SoC used, memory amount, nubs, case and a bunch of other things before there actually was a real pandora. I don't remember what the SoC was supposed to have been back then, but it most certainly wasn't the one we see now.
 
It's the latest fashion. Complete with statements of "Well, I hated Craig before it was cool, y'all".
 
Well, at least it was 2^30 bits and not 10^9. Because that would be only 119 MiB.

Expressing RAM sizes in bits is weird. Maybe we should say that the Pandora successor will have 16 Gb of RAM. And its CPU runs at a whopping 1,700,000,000,000 mHz! (millihertz, not megahertz).
 
The original Pandora boards had 128MBytes of RAM. I think they only went out as devboards to Notaz, Pickle, Skeezix and Squidge(... oh where is Squidge btw!?) and maybe some other devs.
Still have one on my custom stand :-)

From what i was told there were a few boards sent out in the beginning to people who never produced and then had the ethics to return the hardware.
 
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