SKIP> I have had my Palm Pre for a couple of weeks now. It has a TI OMAP 3440 SKIP> Processor, running WebOS, whch is a cut-down version of Linux. The OMAP SKIP> is an ARM-core processor. What is the chance that a J interpreter could SKIP> run on this thing?
100%. I have running J on a Sharp Zaurus SL-C3000 just fine. This is ARM-based, too. It is based on a 416MHz PXA270 XScale to be exact which is of 2004 vintage but ARM is ARM, more or less; note that JSoftware used to support the the StrongARM which was just the precursor to the XScale. This Zaurus has a 4GB microdrive and I run a fully fledged (OpenBSD) Unix on it as a replacement of the standard embedded Linux and the PDA software. (I was wary of lugging my old heavy laptop around and was looking for a really portable development system, shortly before the netbook craze broke out with the ASUS Eee.) The SL-C3x00 series was/is a bit difficult to get outside of Japan but I really like it. The keyboard is not as dinky as in those slider phones and the VGA screen gives me a nice 30x80 console while still being readable. Porting J to it was easy, I did it all while being on a 30 minute train ride. Now, while your gadget can display videos and harrass you with incoming phone calls, the "cut-down" probably translates into a "Full-featured Web browser? YES! C compiler? NO!". The entry http://linuxjunk.blogspot.com/2009/06/palm-pre-uses-glibc.html gives me the impression that cross-compiling for the Pre should work with a flick of the wrist. Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
