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  1. Comment - No dual-boot OLPC is in the works, says Microsoft

    (Jan 10, 2008 - 10:18 PM)

    Your article is factually incorrect. The Give One, Get One program is not current. It has ended. Dr. Jepsen's departure had been planned for a long time -- she was a hardware designer, and the hardware has been put into production. Intel's departure is not any sort of setback, since the project gained nothing from them -- not one line of code.

    Also, you blur several points. The XO has 256MB of system memory. The "memory" you refer to as being 1GB is NAND storage. The XO does not have a BIOS; it runs Open Firmware, and is quite capable of booting from an SD card.

    Your readers might be interested to know they can learn more about this project at http://wiki.laptop.org. That link might be at least as on-topic as a link to Dr. Jepsen's company.