OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..

From: Hotze <photze_at_batelco.com.bh>
Date: Sat Jun 27 01:59:55 1998

Trust me, I've been looking all over for a Linux port to a otherwise CE
device. Linux CE... there are distributions that are small enough and with
enough apps to run, but most of them are x86, and I'm betting on a pripority
system bus... so it'd be increasingly difficult..
    Ciao,

Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..


>Hotze wrote:
>>
>> Come to think of it, ALL of the Windows CE devices have their OS in ROM.
>> *My* opinion is that for UNIX hardware, it's going to be UNIX's biggest
>> competitor. Most Windows CE devices run off of UNIX-style processors, as
>> that's the only way that they can get any speed inexpensively and with a
>> decent battery life.
>
>So we put Linux on the little bastards. It's in the works for the Pilot
>once the thing carries 4Mb of RAM standard (probably a couple months)
>Naturally, it won't be exactly ROM'd.
>--
>Ward Griffiths
>They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
>Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
> Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Received on Sat Jun 27 1998 - 01:59:55 BST