A Squeak PDA

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Fri Nov 9 08:12:55 UTC 2001


Aaron J Reichow <reic0024 at d.umn.edu> is widely believed to have written:


> > hmm, maybe. It doesn't look too terribly good to me. Too windoze.
> 
> Have you tried it or just looked at the screenshots?  I'm afraid I don't
> follow you on the similarities with WinDOS.  It has frames and title bars,
> I suppose.  And widgets!  I'm talking mostly about the window management
> scheme- no overlapping windows, tiling.  I've tried it on a PDA, and it
> works out quite well.  A way to multitask on a PDA.
Just screenshots. It just looks rather windowsy to me. The best PDA UI
I've used so far is still the later Newton stuff. Very effective use of
gestures, the screen edges etc. Well worth studying.

> Still going to be using Linux.  Unlike some of the people on this list, I
> have almost no hardware hacking ability.  I write Smalltalk and Lisp code.
> I have no desire to duplicate work, and would rather waste a meg or two of
> flash than spend 6 months trying to figure out how to get SqueakNOS to
> work.
Actually I suspect you'd find much of it already done and plenty of help
being offered. The SqueakNOS gang is doing very well.

>  Let alone drafting some way of using foreign C-libs.  So, unless
> someone volunteers for this, I'll stick to Linux.  And no, I don't have
> any funds to pay you to do this work, Tim. :)
What? Well, go right out and get some, right this minute, young man. No
excuses now; move along, move along. :->

tim

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