[It took me a while to make a photo, so this reply comes rather late.] Alex Gian wrote: > I'd mothballed the Jornada when I got a Nokia 770 (internet tablet). > Great little machines, cheap as chips, brilliant 800x400 screen, full > Debian, ARM-class processor, slightly limiting user GUI (Hildon) but not > a major problem. [...] > > I'd love to see J run on this, even if it's just on the console. I am > loth to go back to Windows (2003, WM5, WM6 or whatever). Obviously, I > understand that the investment return may not be worthwhile for > JSoftware to port it to Linux ARM, but boy, would it be nice... In any > case, I'm hedging my bets by setting it up to run under SSH - but a > local installation would be fantastic, too.
Have a look at this: http://www.gaertner.de/~neitzel/img/zaurus.jpg This is J running on a Sharp SL-C3000 Zaurus. 416MHz ARM processor, a small but usable keyboard (I'd term it "three finger keyboard"), 480x640 VGA colour screen which I usually use not with X11 but boring console screens. 30 rows by 80 columns is just fine for J. Attach a USB keyboard if you feel so. When not travelling, I usually log _into_ the Zaurus remotely. Sticking out on the right is a Compact Flash WLAN card. 4GB micro drive, SD card slot. I'm running OpenBSD on it, instead of the Linux it came with. I have seen a few of the recent gadgets and so far nothing in the "sub netbook class" comes close to provide a usable J. I've seen mobile phones such as the Palm Pre's, Nokias, the iphone, and they all are too tiny for J input and/or output. And as you said: Being able to tinker with J everywhere, anytime, is just great. J port for the Zaurus done within 30 minutes during a train ride. Another RISC machine I ported J to: http://www.gaertner.de/~neitzel/img/hiram.jpg This is my SGI Octane with a MIPS R12000 processor. Not quite as portable -- to quote the Owner's manual: "lifting an Octane is a two-person job". Martin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
