We're looking at using Squeak on a small, low-power single-board computer, 
perhaps a StrongARM machine. This will mostly not be doing anything too 
interactive, but there will be a simple status display. There will be serial 
and network communications, as well as some database access (I may write a 
BerkeleyDB plugin to do this, as I don't need a relational DB).

We will probably be running Linux, and using VNC for the display.

But I wonder whether the performance will be adequate (I know, what's 
adequate...). Has anyone had any experience using Squeak (especially the 
development tools like the browsers) on such a device? I guess the Compaq 
iPaq is somewhat similar (200MHz or so processor, probably very little 
caching) to what we have in mind.

I know there's iPaq users out there. Anyone experienced with using the 
browsers, etc. on such a device? How about via VNC?

I'm trying Squeak on a 133MHz 586 single-board computer right now, and, while 
it's not speedy (this is an understatement), it would probably be OK for what 
we need. I just wouldn't want to spend too much time in the Morphic browsers 
(I know MVC is faster).

It is a kick to see and interact with Squeak on a Palm using VNC over a 
115200bps PPP serial connection to an embedded processor board.

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Ned Konz
currently: Stanwood, WA
email:     ned at bike-nomad.com
homepage:  http://bike-nomad.com