<DIV>Hello All ----</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Peter wrote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><EM><STRONG>I for one would really love to see you port Illumination over to<BR>Linux instead. While I realize it's designed around DOS and legacy<BR>PC architecture I think a forward port is by far the cleanest<BR>solution, and where effort is best spent.</STRONG></EM> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-------</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I will take any step which may turn out to be necessary in order to get as many</DIV> <DIV>textbooks --- and of course other books of all kinds --- written in Illumination,</DIV> <DIV>in front of the eyes of those developing-world children who need and will be using </DIV> <DIV>the XO (and other machines) as possible. That's my own personal commitment,</DIV> <DIV>and it is total. 110%.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>What that step should be --- with regard to Ilumination and the XO --- I hope to
</DIV> <DIV>discover by, among other things, talking with you guys.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>I have to tell you, though, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--- that it took me (working alone I admit) two years to write Illumination in DOS </DIV> <DIV>using Borland C:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--- that I shall be 75 in August this year:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>--- and hence that the word "deadline" carries a somewhat odd and literal meaning</DIV> <DIV>for me ! I am, thankfully, in good health overall and walk several miles a day, but </DIV> <DIV>my own personal hardware systems are, shall we say, beginning to show a few </DIV> <DIV>bugs here and there?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>----------</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>( I can in any case do little about Illumination and the Third World without the</DIV> <DIV>support of at least one hefty institutional player on the scene. And I have to</DIV> <DIV>tell you that, thus
far, very little signs of such help have appeared, despite my</DIV> <DIV>having sought it.)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>------</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Please take a look at my site, <A href="http://www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk/">www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk</A> and the</DIV> <DIV>downloadable presentation thereon, and perhaps offer me any advice</DIV> <DIV>you may think of?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>NB I am spending the weekend with my girlfriend and hence away from my </DIV> <DIV>PC. (She is sensible enough never to have looked at a PC of any kind.)</DIV> <DIV>I shall be back at my desk Monday lunchtime, though, and will pick up any</DIV> <DIV>email or comments you may have straight away.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Cheers, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Martin Woodhouse</DIV><BR><BR>