8 Feb
2003
8 Feb
'03
2:46 p.m.
OTOH, I agree that the Palm makes a nice hacking
platform - 160x160
screen (nicer than most affordable external LCD displays, and I have
several!), built-in serial, 68K instruction set, megs of RAM... I
can write stuff at the app level for it, but I have no idea how you'd
go about writing stuff for it at the bare-metal level. I'd hate to
hose the PalmOS flash - dunno if there's a way to get it back without
building your own external re-Flasher (in the case of the IIIs and older
that *have* removable SIMMs).
I've seen a security system in a couple of the local Home Depots
or Lowe's (can't remember which) that used a Palm. You can only
see the LCD, but that's enough to tell.
--
Eric Dittman
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