Kevin wrote: >I have read about linux being put up onto a Palm/Handheld PC. That would be a >truly impressive platform.
Sharp has a line of handhelds that come installed with Linux and Linux can be installed on many other handhelds,see http://www.handhelds.org. The Free version of GT.M is currently only available for Linux on x86 and porting it to another processor, like ARM used on many handhelds, is apparently not an easy task or a high enough priority for anyone who could make it happen. Joseph, I will be surprised if GT.M does not run reasonably well as a server on your Pentium 90, if the hardware is still good and you can get Linux installed. I had GT.M running with M2Web a few years back on a laptop with Pentium 233Mhz with 96MB on Redhat 7.1 and then switched to Debian Potato and later Woody. I was going to retire it a while back and purged the disk with a new install of Debian Sarge on it. I was surprised at how easy the installation was and how well it runs now with Debian Sarge, even with X and Mozilla - a little slower than I have become used to now for a personal workstation but workable - and quite usable as a development or demonstration server for M2Web. > >Kevin > > >Joseph Dal Molin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Small is beautiful....as the saying goes..... > >This is perhaps totally irrelevant and dumb but a tleast interesting.... >I have been curious for some time as to what the most minimal hardware >config that VistA has been implemented on. I think that it might be a >simple way to show a lay person how efficient VistA is compared to other >systems. Of course it's all relative as you may only be able to have one >user on the system....but nevertheless the fact that it can work >smoothly and responsively for even a single user is an accomplishment >compared to the bloatware trend that has been the norm in the past 10 >years that has crippled my older but perfectly good computers. > >I have been able to run the VA demo version (the one with the patient >data in it) natively on a Pentium 2, 300 mhz notebook, with 128mb of >memory (both CPRS and the Server), Windows 98. I have a Pentium 1, 90 >mhz, 70someting MB of memory, running Debian which I will try to set up >as a server when I have some free time. > >So anyone out there running it on a Commodore 64? Perhaps we should have >an ongoing contest for the smallest form factor and the oldest dinosaur >computer that VistA is made to run on? > >Joseph --------------------------------------- Jim Self Systems Architect, Lead Developer VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis (http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself) ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
