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To: Tinroad who wrote (4729)	5/25/1999 7:06:00 PM
From: bob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18366

A must read post for anyone questioning what they own. By: haiyaku Reply To: None Tuesday, 25 May 1999 at 6:42 PM EDT Post # of 25066 two gems today: post 24973 states the SDMI's official position (which has been under misrepresentation by some mp3-enthusiast articles of late) and post 24978 explains today's trigger for the volatility. regarding operating systems and possible competition questions, i'd like to give a very simplistic short course: Electronic machines understand only one thing and that's electric pulse "on" and electric pulse "off". That's called "machine language" and is digitally represented by 0's and 1's. When one presses an alpha/numeric key, it sends a set of 0's and 1's to a next level operating system (like DOS) which gives a command to the machine to do an action (such as print a letter to the monitor). The next layer of operating system runs on top of DOS and makes things more user friendly, such as Windows, CE or Mac OS, which are graphical user interfaces (icon representation). These are what the general public think of as operating systems. These systems have become quite bulky and in their complexity create many conflicts with the vast number of applications available today. Enter a new operating system: Edig's Micro OS which is directly compatible with MS-DOS. Micro OS is written in a programmable language called "C" which is the highly flexible and already widely used for text, image and voice applications. It is lean which makes it ideal for handhelds which may include music players, still/video cameras, telephony, etc. It's duty, if you will, is to act as a flexible, general file management system. It is particulary well-suited for the smaller footprint storage products such as flash memory and mini, but is fully capable for ide hard drives. The emerging products, for this example, will use a flash memory chip (about the size of a postage stamp) for storage. One flash chip can be used for multiple purposes...just like a floppy disk can be used for the computer and a Sony Mavica camera. This chip, which is re-writeable, will need an operating system that can function with voice, image, text and so on in a universal, flexible way and that can also support other TASK SPECIFIC operating systems. This is where systems like Jini or Epoc (etc.) operating systems come in. These systems can be layered with the base file management operating system (such as our multi-patented Micro OS). They are not competitors. Digital signal processors (dsp's) are like railroad switching stations that relay varied signals, for example, directing voice to one channel, streaming images to another and so on. The dsp's are especially worth looking at when speed enhancements are announced. In summary, there are hundreds, thousands of integral layers which make up the complex products for the electronic markets of today. Most are based on old and slow, bulky systems. What is emerging are lean, mean wireless machines, capable of multi-tasking at far greater rates which require a flexible, file management operating system. Know what you have and prosper. And, if you doubt this, remember that ibm, intel, lucent, texas instruments are all working with edig....with more to come. hai

To: Tinroad who wrote (4729)	5/26/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: Walter Morton	Respond to of 18366

-----Original Message----- From: Julie Strietelmeier <gadgeteer@the-gadgeteer.com> Date: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 6:55 PM Subject: Re: Portable Digital Music Players Walter, I created a digital audio section on The Gadgeteer. It's very much under construction, but I just wanted to let you know. Thanks! Julie the-gadgeteer.com To: <julie@the-gadgeteer.com> Sent: Monday, May 03, 1999 9:39 PM Subject: Portable Digital Music Players There must be a dozen portable digital music players already on the market and many more trying to get there before Christmas. Nobody has taken the initiative to make a list of all of these players. It seems to me that the person that collects data on these players and puts it into an easy to evaluate format will be well liked by the buying public. Take a chance and rank them. Thanks, Walter Morton