Roger "Merch" Merchberger wrote:
>Rumor has it that healyzh_at_aracnet.com may have mentioned these words:
>>> Jerome Fine replies:
>>>
>>> Which OS runs on the Palm handhelds? Possibly W95/W98 or even the
>>> old DOS/Win 3.1? I will take the challenge in that case. Care to bet how
>>> long it will take?
>>
>>I'm afriad not. They run PalmOS. Totally different architecture. Got to
>>admit I'm wondering if it's possible to put a PDP-11 emulator on one of
>>them. The big problem I see is console emulation.
>
>On a similar vein, I think it would be cool to see an Atari ST emulator on
>the Palm... the screen sizes are pretty close, there's enough memory (on a
>palm III) for a 1Meg ST emulator, it uses the same processor, so it
>shouldn't run *too* slowly... but hooking up that floppy drive would be a
>bit tough, I'll admit... ;-)
Are you sure the processor is the same? I didn't even think it had a
Motorola processor. If it is based on the 68k I suspect you might find
it's missing some of the instructions. I know I've seen talk in Amiga
circles about the latest 68k chips not having all the instructions
necessary to use them in a Amiga clone.
Zane
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Received on Sat Dec 11 1999 - 13:08:39 GMT