PocketPDP

From: Kirk B. Davis <kdavis_at_ndx.net>
Date: Thu Sep 21 12:04:27 2000

> If you did, it would _crawl_. The CPU in the Palm is an enhanced 68000
> processor running at a fairly low speed (16Mhz? 20Mhz?). I think it would
> be cool, too, but intolerably slow.
>

Yeah, I agree. It's somewhat slow on CE devices which have faster
processors. But this is partly due to the overhead of the way I hacked
the IO.

Another issue is the memory size. Most Palms have like
4meg??? I would expect not much room left over for a disk image. Most of the
images I use are RL02 which are 10megs.

Still a port would be easy. Anyone want to buy me a copy of Codewarrior? :-)

> Have you fired up any flavors of PDP UNIX on it?
>

No, just RT-11 and RSTS. I'm working on a Windows version (hopefully with
multiple terminals in different windows). It's mostly the same code and I've
been able to boot Unix 6th edition with it no problem.

Kirk
Received on Thu Sep 21 2000 - 12:04:27 BST