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Benson
2008-09-19 , 12:06
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Well, since they've been planning to have tablets rigged with video out at the Maemo Summit, for doing big-screen presentations, I'd say the capability
actually
exists to have video out; this may or may not be the same as noBounds. When people get back, I'm sure they'll be posting all over, and that will be covered. (They seem to be busy enough right now to reduce coverage from the levels I'd like, anyway, but I wouldn't be surprised if we hear about those displays this afternoon.)
Community-side, with no real funding, we've had some success with SIS USB-VGA adapters; you can run an X server and display apps, but the framerate is poor, largely because we're doing a fairly lame dump of framebuffer data; we can't put our own software, speaking whatever seems good, on the other end like noBounds is said to do.
I think "hoax" is rather strong, as the
specific
allegation made there was that the remote end was running Windows XP, and even the generalized allegation there was merely that it was "smoke and mirrors", which is essentially the point of noBounds. While that XP-based system is obviously not practical (because of license expense, if nothing else), using a different OS than the final product means that it's a POC, not that it's a hoax.
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