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From: Andrew Gillham <gillhaa@ghost.whirlpool.com>
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Subject: Re: News...
In-Reply-To: <361CA1EC.59A7E89A@causality.com> from "Neil A. Carson" at "Oct 8, 98 12:28:44 pm"
To: neil@causality.com (Neil A. Carson)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 14:19:10 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: netbsd-advocacy@NetBSD.ORG
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Neil A. Carson writes:
> ...useful for events?
> 
> A friend of mine, Andrew McMurry (who also did FileCoreFS) has started
> porting NetBSD to the Psion Series 5a organiser (and later probably the
> Geofox too). It looks like:
> 	1) We might beat Linux to being the first unix to run on a Palmtop
> 	2) We'll have something even cooler than a Shark to show at events
> 
> 	Neil

There is "microcontroller linux" running on the PalmPilot.  I don't
know if that counts, since it has no mmu.

What I would like to see, is NetBSD running on a Windows CE platform.
The Phillips Nino is a R3000, and the Phillips Velo 1 (and 500?) has an
R4000.  Considering we have support for MIPS already, it should be easier
than the Hitachi SH3(?) based Windows CE boxes.  
A 75Mhz R4000 with 32MB seems like it would be "snappy" compared to 
a 18Mhz ARM7000.. :)  Not that there would be anything wrong with
having both.

-Andrew
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