From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <496858d56df393bfade5596490e46d0f@caldo.demon.co.uk> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ipaq installation changes From: Charles Forsyth In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 00:16:03 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5b217e2-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 >>I think the big thing is to get away from the idea of using it as a >>portable terminal and drag it in some new direction. yes, i think that's right. having done that you might perhaps suddenly realise that some of the old things can be re-imported (i'm mainly thinking of cpu and web browsing here) but in a different and more useful form (given the form factor) having made the change of mental viewpoint. it is a curious device: reasonably nice screen (but small space), non-trivial integer CPU power (but what could you crunch), touch screen, buttons, flash storage, USB, wireless, ... one of my practical problems with the ipaq is that the device components change fast enough that even people working for the manufacturer can't quite keep up.