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From: "Pjotr Kourzanov" <kourzano@natlab.research.philips.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Bitsy hardware docs.
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----- Original Message -----=20
From: "Digby Tarvin" <digbyt@acm.org>
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Sent: Saturday 22 September 2001 3:48
Subject: Re: [9fans] Bitsy hardware docs.


> Pjotr Kourzanov:
> >=20
> >   So, there is Plan9 port for StrongARM? I'm surprised...
> >
> The 3rd edition docs lists ARM7500FE and Strongarm SA1 core machines
> amoungst those supported by the compiler, so I guess it was used on
> other ARM based machines before the iPAQ.

    This means you'll have to compile everything, and port the drivers. =
Sure,
given some spare time and access to Linux sources that might prove easy.
=20
> An Inferno port also seems to be available

   That's great! The very first thing I'll do when I have spare time is =
to play
with that a little. Don't know whether I'll venture into Plan9 itself, =
but its
nice to have Inferno running on Linux as well.

> > > Can anyone give me some pointers on where to look for a nice
> > > system programmers overview of the beast?
> > >
> >=20
> >     Try www.handhelds.org, they have lotsa links and even 3 Linux
> > distributions for that animal :-)
>=20
> Thanks. That was indeed a useful site.
>=20
> An Inferno port also seems to be available, which is encouraging both
> because I can run most interesting OSs on the machine, and also =
because
> it implies some pretty smart people have decided the hardware is =
interesting
> enough to have put in the effort to port to it.

    Yeah, that was the reason I bought iPAQ and not Palm. You just have =
much more
flexibility, that is, besides the computing power of a little outdated =
desktop.

> I certainly wasn't excited by what the machine seemed to have to offer
> as a WinCE handheld, and doubt I would have considered it were it not
> for the 3rd party OSs available. Makes me wonder how much of the price
> I paid went to Microsoft for software I will never use :-/
> Regards,
> DigbyT
> --=20
> Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              =
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> http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk