The Star7 PDA Prototype
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Uploaded by enaiel on Sep 13, 2007
The Star7 (*7) was a prototype for a SPARC based, handheld wireless PDA, with a 5" color LCD with touchscreen input, a new 16 bit --5:6:5 color hardware double buffered NTSC framebuffer, 900MHz wireless networking, PCMCIA bus interfaces, multi-media audio codec, a new power supply/battery interface, radical industrial design and packaging/process technology, a version of Unix that runs in under a megabyte, including drivers for PCMCIA, radio networking, touchscreen, display, flash RAM file system, execute-in-place, split I/D cache, with cached framebuffer support, a new small, safe, secure, distributed, robust, interpreted, garbage collected, multi-threaded, architecture neutral, high performance, dynamic programming language, a new small, fast, true-color alpha channel compositing, sprite graphics library, a set of classes that implement a spatial user interface metaphor, a user interface methodology which uses animation, audio, spatial cues, gestures, agency, color, and fun, a set of applications which show all of the features of the *7 hardware and software combination, including a TV guide, a fully functioning television remote control, a ShowMe style distributed whiteboard which allows active objects to be transmitted over a wireless network, and an on-screen agent which makes the whole experience fun and engaging.
All of this, in 1992! While the Star7 may have never entered commercial production, Oak, the language behind it all, became the very popular Java programming language.
Copyright (c) Sun Microsystems.
For more information see:
https://duke.dev.java.net/green/
http://blogs.sun.com/jag/entry/the_green_ui
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@TheWorldOfJames cheaters
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Wait, if they had "almost iphone" in 1992, WHAT THEY HAVE NOW THEN?! Something tells me its not iphone 4gs!
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1992?
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This guy makes me nervous
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Test
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Creepy.
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@xxSpeedyBoyxx if i could you would be the first thing it collects lol
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@xxSpeedyBoyxx fuck off any turing complete language can be just as good as yours, you just have to be a bad ass programmer
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It was a resistive touch screen and a 10MHz processor, no GPU, 4Mb RAM.
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Apple wants us to believe that Apple invented stuff like "color icons" with the iPhone.
walterabyrd 10 months ago 8
they had touch screens in 1992??
TheWorldOfJames 3 years ago 7