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Date:      Fri, 27 Feb 1998 22:40:11 -0500 (EST)
From:      Paul Griffith <paulg@interlog.com>
To:        Gary Kline <kline@tera.tera.com>
Cc:        roy@AdeptSolutions.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD on palmtops
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.95.980227223737.16930A-100000@shell1.interlog.com>
In-Reply-To: <199802271926.LAA27373@athena.tera.com>

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Paul Griffith - paulg@interlog.com

On Fri, 27 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:

> According to Roy Lovejoy:
> > hi-
> > 
> > Am currently running FreeBSD and loving it on a 486 box.
> > 
> > But I see these new palmtops running WinCE, and I think to myself,
> > "self", I'd rather be running FreeBSD off of 2 AA batteries than
> > Windows.
> > 
> > I know the most recent palmtops are running a non-intel RISC cpu,
> > but some of the older DOS palmtops are obviously running intel
> > archetecture.
> > 
> > Do you know of any palmtops that are capable of running FreeBSD.
> > I don't care if I have to get a PCMCIA scsi card, and/or have to burn my
> > own
> > ROMs, I just want to know if anyone has gotten a palmtop to run FreeBSD,
> > 
> > and which mfg/model it was.
> > 
> 
> 
> 	I'll second this request.  Even without X, FBSD would be
> 	a huge win on a palmtop.  But chances are somewhere around
> 	(abs) Zero , I'd bet.
> 
> 	Nate?  Anybody?
> 
> 	gary kline
> 
> 
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Well there is a project to port Linux to a palmtop. Take a look at
http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux - they have a gif of Linux 2.0.33
running on a 3Com/USR Palm Pilot.




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