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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 19:14:59 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Dave Andersen <angio@angio.net>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        eng@whistle.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: talk (fwd)
Message-ID:  <199805200114.TAA14072@meowy.angio.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980518131343.18931D-100000@current1.whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "May 18, 98 01:15:03 pm"

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Lo and behold, Julian Elischer once said:
> do we have a strong-arm version of FreeBSD coming up? :-)

   DEC ported NetBSD to run on their old StrongARM computer, the shark.
They've discontinued that one, however, and it looks like they're turning
linux-ward.

   -Dave

> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 11:45:04 -0700
> From: Anne Urban <agu@alumni.cse.ucsc.edu>
> To: colen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com, decker@alumni.caltech.edu,
>     joeld@engr.sgi.com, julian@whistle.com, ktl@hyperparallel.com,
>     markv@pixar.com, nitzberg@netcom.com
> Subject: talk
> 
> >From owner-colloq-local-list@lists.Stanford.EDU Fri May 15 20:35 PDT 1998
> Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:43:53 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Andreas Paepcke <paepcke@cs.stanford.edu>
> To: colloq@cs.stanford.edu
> Subject: Talk: Itsy: An Open Platform for Pocket Computing
> 
> 
> On Wednesday, May 20, 1998, we will  host a talk by Dr. Deborah Wallach of
> DEC WRL. It will take place in the Stanford Gates Building, Rm B03 in the
> basement. Time: 3:15. For those interested, there will be a demo in Room
> 104 at 4:15, after the talk.
> 
>           Itsy: An Open Platform for Pocket Computing 
>                      Deborah A. Wallach, DEC WRL
> 
> The "Itsy Pocket Computer" is a small handheld computer based on the
> low-power, high-performance StrongARM SA-1100 microprocessor. Our
> current prototype runs at 200MHz on a pair of AAA batteries, and
> sports a tiny, high-resolution LCD touchscreen, a high-quality audio
> codec, and up to 64MB of memory.
> 
> Itsy is designed to be an open platform for research projects ranging
> from OS power management to novel gesture and speech-based user
> interfaces. The base Itsy hardware provides a flexible interface for
> adding a custom daughtercard, enabling a wide range of hardware
> projects such as wireless networking and GPS. Itsy also supports the
> Linux OS and standard GNU tools, facilitating the development of both
> kernel and application software, as well as ports of existing packages
> such as Apache.
> 
> Deborah A. Wallach received her S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer
> Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she worked in
> a variety of areas including massively parallel computer architecture,
> distributed systems, operating systems, and networks.  Dr. Wallach has been
> a member of the research staff in the Western Research Laboratory since
> March 1997.  Currently she is interested in several aspects of mobile
> computing, especially applications, operating systems, and user interfaces
> for portable hand-held devices.
> 
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