EPOC would be a good os to port rebol. Psion users are
the type of people who would buy rebol/view/core/pro.
The built in OPL language (basic like) is very
popular...
rishi
--- Christian Morency <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> jeff wrote:
> "Yes, the REBOL Palm port lives in a border town
> next to the
> realm of "possibility". REBOL has even been
> compiled for
> Palm before, but the problem is that in order for
> REBOL to
> run (or even to boot) a segmentation paging scheme
> (virtual
> memory) has to be used. Under such a scheme, page
> faults
> would occur constantly. More time would be spent
> moving
> memory than in being an interpreter. As you approach
> the
> problem of a REBOL Palm port, it becomes
> increasingly
> infeasible. "
>
> Of course, I have to agree with you, the memory
> system in the Palm is surely
> a limit. I've had my share of dealing with it ;)
>
> "The other approach is to hack the memory protection
> of Palm
> OS. This isn't acceptable, though, because of the
> potential
> for accidentally hurting other apps or data on the
> pda."
>
> Unless it'll be only used for Rebol... but then
> again, what is the point of
> having a Rebol-only PDA ?
>
> "There's still more issues, from Palm's event model
> and how
> REBOL's works, potentially workable, but still an
> issue."
>
> Please don't elaborate more, I know about that event
> model, and that
> pseudo-multitasking behind a
> true-hackable-multitasking and I'll probably
> have nightmares tonight ;-)
>
> "And how do you write scripts -- in graffiti??
> Storing and
> load scripts from the database?"
>
> Well I wouldn't write them using Graffiti that's for
> sure. But then again,
> one could write them on his desktop and load them on
> it's PDA. I've actually
> written several programs in OPL for the PsionS5 on
> the device itself and I
> have big hands !
>
> "Anyhow, there were enough demonstrable problems
> with it that
> we scrapped consideration of the Palm -- to the
> disappointment of many."
>
> Well, I can understand why the Rebol team has
> decided to put the development
> of Rebol for the Palm on hold, but why not under
> EPOC ! At least for those
> who can't stand owning a PDA running WindowsCE or
> any Microsoft's OS ;)
>
> Best,
> Chris
>
>
> -jeff
>
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