Interesting new target with Palm OS
btanksley at hifn.com
btanksley at hifn.com
Thu Oct 19 17:49:35 UTC 2000
From: Aaron J Reichow [mailto:reic0024 at d.umn.edu]
>On Thu, 19 Oct 2000 btanksley at hifn.com wrote:
>> From: Lalo Martins [mailto:lalo at hackandroll.org]
>> >If you want to sell a Squeak-based PDA, I'd say you should go
>> [...]
>> >In fact, that's exactly my plan in the long term.
>> Sign me up for this.
>> I'm /very/ interested in a programmable PDA, even if it couldn't be
>> programmed onboard. Just imagine...
>Not to early to start... You can download the Helio image, emulator and
>such and Squeak your heart out.
Wow, that sounds *painful*.
Actually, I think I'll do the trick with reducing the size of squeak to
160x160x1; that's enough for me. I do suspect we'll want to generate C for
all of the stuff that goes directly on the PDA; interpretation could be too
painful.
The exciting part isn't being able to code on the palmtop; it's having our
own palm OS.
>There seems to be increasing interest in this since Jay has release the
>preview of Squeak on the Helio. Would there been any interest
>amoung us
>to start a PDA-Squeak (that is, UI, Apps, frameworks) project? Perhaps
>host it on Sourceforge?
I'm for it. I actually have a design I've been working on for a while,
based on systemic linking, journalling, and categorical organization. I
think we can make the PalmOS apps look both unbearably complex and unusably
simplistic :-).
But I'm only just learning Smalltalk. Someone else will have to head the
project.
>Aaron
-Billy
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