Is anybody using squeak on a cassiopeia e-10 or 11? If so, can they advise on whether or not it makes a practical squeak platform?
I couldn't work out whether the comments about the usability of squeak on the cassiopeia from the squeak-for-cassiopeia pages apply to the A-model cassiopeias (which have a keyboard as well as a pen) or the E-models (pen-only).
The E-11 looks like a neat piece of hardware, but most of the WinCE software it includes in ROM doesn't seem to be much use unless your main computer is also running some version of windows.
My hope is that I could more or less use squeak as an alternative (more flexible) operating system for the thing and ignore the WinCE stuff.
The most complicated stuff I'm interested in doing is reading and writing email, and some programming. Obviously, this would be easier on a machine with a keyboard and a larger screen but would it be _practical_ on the E-11?
-- Matthew McDonald mafm@cs.uwa.edu.au
Is anybody using squeak on a cassiopeia e-10 or 11? If so, can they advise on whether or not it makes a practical squeak platform?
[...] Obviously, this would be easier on a machine with a keyboard and a larger screen but would it be _practical_ on the E-11?
Well, just evaluate
Display fillWhite; setExtent: 240@320. ScheduledControllers restore
and try it out yourself :-) The main memory (8MB) of the E-11 should be enough for Squeak. I'm not sure about the processing speed however. The usable screen is very limited, but I can imagine a slightly different IDE, which could use the screen space more efficient and which would use only one mouse button (that is just the pen) instead of three different buttons. You could also probably reduce the font size a bit. I think, it can work.
bye -- Stefan Matthias Aust // Are you ready to discover the twilight zone?
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