Squeak on BlackBerry device

gafisher gafisher at sprynet.com
Mon Sep 3 16:35:03 UTC 2007


The latest Blackberry models incorporate a trackball, but everything else
still looks like quite a challenge.

Gary


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "tim Rowledge" <tim at rowledge.org>
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Sent: Monday, September 03, 2007 11:03 AM
Subject: Re: Squeak on BlackBerry device


>
> On 3-Sep-07, at 7:34 AM, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi wrote:
>
> > I hope this information could be interesting.
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry#CPU
> Looks like a pretty tricky port to me; more a massive rework really.
> No pointer input, so your entire image input system would have to be
> completely changed. Only 16Mb of RAM for the entire system and I'd
> bet a lot is constantly in use for the major message related apps. I
> rather doubt there is any virtual memory...
>
> Not an easy project.
>
> tim
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