OLPC-like device...

Aaron Reichow revaaron at bitquabit.com
Thu Feb 1 06:50:50 UTC 2007


The answer for both questions - a few apps I've written myself,  
things that were meant to be for Dynapad, but lack the polish to  
really share them. Very, very rough, but you always love your own  
children, eh?

The other big thing I do on any mobile device is reading books, and a  
simple .txt ebook reader is something I've been meaning to do for  
Squeak for a long time...

Regards,
Aaron

On Jan 31, 2007, at 12:28 AM, Brad Fuller wrote:

> Aaron Reichow wrote:
>> I do similar things that I do with my desktop- I use it for most  
>> of what
>> I do, with the exception of web browsing. For my PDA, that means:
>>
>> 1. Remote access via telnet and VNC
>> 2. Notetaking
>
> What do you use to take notes?
>
>> 3. PIM stuff (there aren't any PIM apps that come installed on the  
>> Nokia
>> tablets, so that's handy!)
>
> What PIM stuff do you use?
>
>
>> 4. Scripting of all kinds- like on the desktop, I like being able to
>> write little snippits of code to tell me stuff.
>>
>> I'm sure I"m forgetting something... but yeah, there you go!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Aaron
>>
>> On Jan 30, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Ivan Tomek wrote:
>>
>>> Speaking about applications, what do people typically do with  
>>> Squeak on
>>> their portable devices?
>>>
>>> Ivan
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>>> [mailto:squeak-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of
>>> Aaron Reichow
>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:01 PM
>>> To: The general-purpose Squeak developers list
>>> Subject: Re: OLPC-like device...
>>>
>>> On Jan 30, 2007, at 12:21 PM, Brad Fuller wrote:
>>>> To add to Aaron Reichow post:
>>>>
>>>> Is the Nokia N800 too low in CPU power?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS9981902594.html
>>>> http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/05/nokia-n800-internet-tablet- 
>>>> unboxed/
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- brad fuller
>>>> www.bradfuller.com
>>>
>>> And too add more-
>>>
>>> My brand spankin' new N800 gets this for tinyBenchmarks:
>>>
>>> 18,348,623 bytecodes/sec and 667,395 sends/sec
>>>
>>> I definitely feel the difference between the 770 and the N800 in
>>> Squeak.  Squeak 3.9 out of the box is still too slow to use, but the
>>> performance of 3.2 and 3.4 is quite snappy.  For those who may not
>>> have used older versions of Squeak, or not have used them for a
>>> while, _please_ _note_ that those older versions aren't that much
>>> different. It's pretty easy to port code between versions of Squeak
>>> in the 3.x series.  Some folks seem to think that using 3.2 is like
>>> using Windows 3.1- far from it.  Newer Squeaks have some features
>>> that may be required for your app- stuff from SqueakLand, traits, or
>>> some of the character/language support stuff.  But for what most
>>> folks do, other than the obvious changes in look, a lot of folks
>>> wouldn't notice the difference very quickly.
>>>
>>> Finding tablets under $1000 will pretty much limit you to PDA like
>>> devices like the Nokia N800 or possibly older used devices.  But
>>> depending on your app, using Squeak 3.2 on a Nokia N800 might work
>>> out very well!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> -- 
> brad fuller
> www.bradfuller.com
>




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