Message-ID: <35F01A7F.393D@ezpost.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1998 10:51:11 -0600
From: trevor@ezpost.com
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; U)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.palmtops
To: Nobuaki Tanaka <ntanaka@trl.mei.co.jp>
Subject: Re: Unix on a Palmtop?
References: <6rsr41$oli$1@news-2.news.gte.net> 
		<35EA387D.F2EE1866@rocketmail.com> <rxzGI.ntanaka@trl.mei.co.jp>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
NNTP-Posting-Host: acer-229.ezcom.net
Lines: 59
Path: news.adfa.oz.au!clarion.carno.net.au!news0.optus.net.au!news1.optus.net.au!optus!nsw.nntp.telstra.net!wa.nntp.telstra.net!139.130.240.98.MISMATCH!intgwlon.nntp.telstra.net!nntprelay.mathworks.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news.insinc.net!news.mortimer.com!acer-229.ezcom.net
Xref: news.adfa.oz.au comp.os.minix:31210 comp.os.linux.misc:265827 comp.sys.palmtops:104953

Nobuaki Tanaka wrote:
> 
> On 08/31/98(14:45) Tony Livengood <zorrak@rocketmail.com> wrote
> in <35EA387D.F2EE1866@rocketmail.com> (comp.os.minix:23783/percy):
>  |W. Robert Nelson wrote:
>  |>
>  |> Greetings,
>  |>
>  |> I am interested in buying a PDA or palmtop computer and would like to be
>  |> able to run some unix clone OS on it.  I have seen references to this
>  |> being done on the 'net, but the sites I've seen have very little
>  |> information and have not been updated for a long time.
>  |>
>  |> Has this been done?  With Minix?  Linux?  Others?
>  |>
>  |> What type of palmtop would be best suited to running a unix-like OS?
>  |>
>  |> Where could I obtain detailed information?
>  |>
>  |> Thank you very much for your advise.
>  |>
>  |> --
>  |> W. Robert Nelson
>  |
>  |
>  |   On a WinCE toy, you couldn't do something like that because the OS is
>  |stored in one or two ROM chips. On a series 5, it MAY be software
>  |upgradable. PalmPilots are a definite yes.
>  |
>  |BTW: Martin Young, nice sig :)
>  |
>  |-Tony Livengood
> 
>   I read an article about PocketBSD in Software Design magazine
> (Japanese magazine).  PocketBSD runs on NEC's Mobile Gear DOS-version.
>  Mobile Gear II is a WinCE 2.0 machine, but previous model of Mobile
> Gear is a modified-DOS machine.  Someone who is Japanese ported
> FreeBSD or NetBSD onto the Mobile Gear DOS-version.
>   I recommend you (Mr. W. Robert Nelson) to post your question about
> PocketBSD to the News Groups like fj.os.bsd.misc or fj.os.bsd.freebsd.
> Most of articles in those News Groups are written in Japanese, but I
> think someone will answer your question in English.  I don't know if
> Mobile Gear is sold in the US or not, but I think it worth to post one
> question-article to those News Groups.
> 
>   Sorry for my bad English. (My native tangue is Japanese. Sorry.)
> 
> --
> -------------------------------------------- Nobuaki Tanaka ----
> ntanaka@trl.mei.co.jp   AE86 VT250-Spada ZEOS FreeBSD PENTAX Z-5

You could also look at the IBM PC110 palmtop that is available in
Japan...   It has links listed on the Linux Laptop web page.  

It's a 486 based machine that is known to run Linux.  I'd love one....
but 

Trevor 
trevor@interback.com
