Re: Palm Devices

[Neil Davey]

On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Daniel Heiserer wrote:

> address@hidden wrote:
> > 
> > I know this is really unlikely but is there a chance that
> > a very slimmed down version of Octave will be ported
> > to palm devices (i.e. Palm Pilot) anytime?
> > 
> > There are some programmable calculators available for
> > palm pilots that do graphing, branching, functions,
> > conditionals, linear algebra, etc. already so the hardware
> > could accommodate it somewhat.
> > 
> > Thanks...
> > 
> 
> I have somewhere heard about linux on the PALM Pilot.
> 
> Maybe that is a way?
> 
> daniel
> 

not an easy way... there is a port of Linux being developed for palm
devices, but it requires a whole new memory card for the palms, about 4
meg ram and 8 meg flash rom... and it ain't to cheap, in respect to cost
of the palm...

Neil
 
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