Re: Palm Devices

[Neil Davey]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Tony Jebara wrote:

> 
> Linux on the PALM sounds like an excellent idea with lots
> of potential. I wouldn't mind paying extra for RAM, this palm V
> is the only device small enough to carry at all times (winCE
> palms are too big and so are the smallest laptops).

The site were you should start of you are interested in linux and palms is
here:

http://www.uclinux.org/

from what I recall, this only works with palm 3 series, since on the palm
5 they realy changed the hardware... but I could be wrong.. it's been a
little while since I've looked at it..


regards
        Neil

> Any idea where I can keep track of the palm linux development
> work you mentioned?
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> -Tony
> 
> 
> 
> Neil Davey wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Daniel Heiserer wrote:
> >
> > > address@hidden wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I know this is really unlikely but is there a chance that
> > > > a very slimmed down version of Octave will be ported
> > > > to palm devices (i.e. Palm Pilot) anytime?
> > > >
> > > > There are some programmable calculators available for
> > > > palm pilots that do graphing, branching, functions,
> > > > conditionals, linear algebra, etc. already so the hardware
> > > > could accommodate it somewhat.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks...
> > > >
> > >
> > > I have somewhere heard about linux on the PALM Pilot.
> > >
> > > Maybe that is a way?
> > >
> > > daniel
> > >
> >
> > not an easy way... there is a port of Linux being developed for palm
> > devices, but it requires a whole new memory card for the palms, about 4
> > meg ram and 8 meg flash rom... and it ain't to cheap, in respect to cost
> > of the palm...
> >
> > Neil
> >
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