On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 09:55:04AM +0100, Dick Porter wrote:
> In an attempt to keep open source journalism rooted in facts, here are a
> couple of comments :-)
> > Another bunch of guys learned the same lesson a year or two ahead of me,
> [...]
> > They nearly ran out of money, were acquired by 3Com, and that's how
> > Palm Computing's Pilot came to market.
>
> The Palm Pilot was originally a US Robotics product (not sure of the heritage
> before then, but afaik came from their internal engineering staff as a
> blue-sky project).
The team that built it were originally the grafitti team -- grafitti
originated as a separate utility for the Newt, was acquired by USR when
they ran out of money (not 3Com, thanks), and then 3Com bought USR.
> > (from http://pda.tucows.com/palm/preview/34597.html), or use the Pyrite
> > translators (http://pyrite.linuxave.net/dtk/dtk.html). You can read
>
> http://www.pyrite.org
Caught by the editor ;-)
> > SUBTITLE: Who needs laptops?
> >
> > A PDA like a Palm Pilot isn't a suitable substitute for a laptop. For
> > one thing, it doesn't run Linux. (Clue: that was a joke.) For another
>
> And not true either :-) See the ucLinux port at http://www.uclinux.org ...
Serious question: does anyone actually use ucLinux in anger on a Palm?
My understanding was that it's a cool trick to run on POSE, but all
you get is console i/o via the serial port -- not exactly usable, unless
there's a pen input method available (and some way of getting data on and
off the PDA).
-- Charlie
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previous 30689 passwords. Please type a different password. Type a password
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