no pouch? you got ripped dude!
On Thursday 04 October 2001 08:27 am, you wrote:
> Seth Cohn wrote:
> > It's not running Linux, but I'm not convinced
> > that running Linux on a handheld is so hot right
> > now... speed and ram are huge issues, and so far,
> > I'm not impressed with the results.
>
> Jim Gettys is:
>
> an architect of the Linux on iPAQ project,
>
> one of the two inventors (with Bob Schieffler) of
> the X Window System,
>
> an old friend of mine from college.
>
> I ran into him at LinuxWorld '00. After the usual round of "where are
> they now", he showed me his Bitsy (iPAQ precursor). He said something
> like, "Sure it has enough RAM. It has 32 megs. We wrote X on VAX
> 750s with 4 megs. 32 meg is <ironic>more menory than you can ever
> use</ironic>." The StrongARM CPU is significantly faster, too.
>
> Fer you younguns, a VAX 750 was about the size of a washer/dryer.
> It travelled by forklift, and did not come with a leather pouch.
