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- On 8 Mar 1998, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
-
- > I have noticed that there are several ARM chips (e.g. ARM 7100) that
- > are effectively a PDA on a chip. I wonder what PDA's there are that
- > are based on these chips, and if there is any possibilty of porting
- > Linux to them. I'd love to have Linux running on the Pilot, but it
- > looks like even the Palm III uses an MMU-less processor, which (IMO)
- > makes any Unix implementation a toy (a *neat* toy, I admit, but still
- > a toy.)
-
- Well there is the Psion-5 which uses an ARM 7100; it can take a fair
- amount of RAM. As always the problem is finding out if it uses any
- special hardare - but considering the ARM7100 integrates so much I can't
- imagine there can be that much.
-
- There is also the Geofox 1, it uses the same OS as the Psion-5 (EPOC32)
- but is a bit larger and has things like a glidepoint squidge pad and
- I think some real PCMCIA slots.
-
- I expect Windows CE machines based on StrongARM to appear reasonably
- soon - after replacement of the OS they should make fairly nice machines!
-
- > I know the Newton runs StrongARM, but it's (a) discontinued and (b)
- > too bulky for my taste...
-
- Heh? When was the Newton discontinued?????
-
-
- Dave
-
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