On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 03:35:25PM -0800, David A. Desrosiers wrote:
> 
>   The conversation started when I showed her the O'Reilly Linux Device
> Drivers book and Samba books online in Plucker format. I offered to help
> them get their content "PDA-ready" on their online books download section.
> She seemed interested in the idea. Perhaps it would be a good entry point
> for Plucker and for doing a comparison of the alternatives.

Here's something that you might want to use when comparing Plucker
with iSilo. When I tested the iSilo 3.0 beta last month, I was
surprised and deeply irritated to discover that I couldn't use it
at all until I had about 150kB free on my Visor. 150kB of permanently
UNUSABLE memory if you want your iSilo documents to be always
available!!!

The website for iSilo 3.0 (http://www.isilo.com/download.htm)
has this to say:

    basic requirements:
    306K for application
    Additional free working memory:
        128k for viewing documents in internal memory (256k recommended)
        256k for viewing documents on memory expansion cards (512k recommended)

Looks like they've improved matters slightly now that version 3.0 is
out of beta, but I still have no desire to waste 128kB. 

Alys

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