EPOC32 is owned by Symbian PLC, which is a joint venture of Psion, Nokia,
Ericsson, Motorola and Matsushita.  Symbian offers the entire development system
as a free download or a CDROM for shipping cost.  The bad news is that it relies
heavily on Windows, especially Visual C++, for prototyping and final packaging of
the installable application.  The good news is I have all that stuff.

Someone mentioned the memory model as an obstacle for PalmOS development.  On the
Psion, ALL data memory (pure and impure) must be allocated from the heap, which
means that Tim Rowledge has been developing a variation of the interpreter that
has no static variables in it - everything will be accessed from a struct
allocated before calling the interpret function (and with its pointer as a
parameter to interpret).  Is this requirement similar to PalmOS's?  If so, we are
already halfway there.

Ed

A Prophetic Thirst wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 06:45:28PM +0200, Robb Shecter wrote:
> > A Prophetic Thirst wrote:
> > >
> > > -Chris, still sticking to his Squeak-less Palm III.
> >
> > What about Squeak on a Psion 5?  I haven't seen anything about this -
> > Has anybody tried a port to EPOC?
> >
>
> Has Psion LTD UK gotten any more clueful about their policies WRT releasing
> their headers/API's to the public?
>
> I used to own a 3A, and got turned off _HARD_ after I watched several attempts
> at getting a C (gcc) cross compilation environnment going for the thing be
> UTTERLY thwarted by Psion UK who seems to want us all to buy their $300 *DOS*
> basedd SDK.
>
> Not for me, thanks :) Maybe they've gotten better, I'd be happy to hear it if
> so.
>
> As for the Aero, sounds neat, however I can't afford to carry both a PDAA
> and an almost-as-small-as-a-PDA special purpose Squeak machine :)
>
> -Chris
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