Vintage Portable Computing Suggestions?

Fred wrote: There are at least 2 Palm-hosted Forth systems and a common LISP. There is a JVM and development system and I believe even an assembler. I can't remember if the assembler is self-hosted but I think it is. There is also a telnet client. The letter recognition system Palms have for the stylus they come with is amazing but it is tiring to use for more than a few sentences. You can also use the virtual keyboard or even an addon physical keyboard on some models but with the tiny screen you really have to like punishing yourself for no reason except to say you did. Any "normal" portable is going to be much more practical and much less painful than a Palm, even though Palms are fun and can do an amazing amount of stuff. And Palm OS is really well written and implemented, the SDK should have been a model for other systems. As usual the good stuff goes the way of the dinosaur and the inferior stuff with better marketing and GUI lives on. -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Vintage Coder America Online ivagntrpbqre at nby.pbz <ROT13> | | | | Collecting: DOS assemblers, compilers, & books (Z80, M68X, 6502, 808X) | | Software & doc for IBM S/360 through OS/390 | | | | Can't find: Ada 95 compilers for MVS/ESA & Solaris (Sparc) | | PL/I X Optimizing Compiler for MVS, APL/SV for MVS | |---------------------------------------+--------------------------------| | Powered by Slackware 64 & Solaris 10 | Powered by Hercules | |=======================================+================================| | PGP Key 4096R 0x1CB84BEFC73ACB32 Encrypted email preferred | | PGP Fingerprint 5C1C 3AEB A7B2 E6F7 34A0 2870 1CB8 4BEF C73A CB32 | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+