Squeak on handheld?

Frank Berthold kytharis at javanet.com
Tue Sep 28 02:02:22 UTC 1999


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc Nijdam [mailto:marc_nijdam at hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 1999 6:57 PM
> To: squeakie at visto.com
> Cc: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Squeak on handheld?
>
>
> "John Tobler" <squeakie at visto.com> writes:
>
> Not to promote stuff from my employer... but did you consider the
> Jornada 820. I just got one of them. It's a CE device with a
> reasonable keyboard. Display is a bit slow (maybe if it would boot
> Squeak ;-) I've no idea whether Squeak has been ported to it though?

	I've spent the last several days researching the Jornada 820.
	If anyone is considering doing the port, or considering buying a portable
computer strictly as a Squeak box, I would strongly recommend it.  At the
moment it's the fastest CE machine out there.  Though most CE people seem to
think this is a disadvantage, it uses a mouse pad(apparently with 2 buttons)
instead of a touch screen so you don't have the constant problem of Squeak
not being able to find the pointer.  Of course, the 10 hour battery life
doesn't hurt either. Also, I've seen it advertised for as little as $615.
Sorry if this sounds like an advertisement, but from what I've read I'm
pretty well sold on this device(outside of being reluctant to throw money at
Microsoft).

______________
Frank Berthold
Kytharis at javanet.com

"As for believing what I write--I don't believe anything.
I either know it, or I'm still thinking about it."
                         -Tom Ivers





More information about the Squeak-dev mailing list