6 Feb
2003
6 Feb
'03
4:31 p.m.
At 21:04 02/06/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I was sitting at home reading my latest copy of Mouser
(component catalog)
As I have done most recently... ;-)
Palms and Visors...
I've had a somewhat different _psycho-wacky_ idea -- what would it take to
get OS-9/68K ported to the Palm? I have a Palm 3c with a partially dead
battery, twiddling it's thumbs, which would make a decent "play-palm"...
uClinux looks too bulky & slow, compared to OS-9...
Anyone here work for Radisys/MicroWare... Any chance they'd sell hobbyist
source licenses??? :-)
One bad thing with this is I did some googling earlier today (for sh*ts &
grins) and there's not a ton of info about the internals of the Palms
(things like memory maps, display access parameters, etc...) out there...
...but the palm doesn't have built in USB or
Ethernet or Serial,
Ahem, *all* the older Palms (up to & including the 3C) had built-in Serial,
and the newer ones have built-in USB... mind you, you need a Handspring
with it's built-in CF slot to get ethernet...
you are stuck with a bulky add-on or a cradle...
Or just a cable... been on the open market for years... :-)
...possibly SCSI on a standard AT board in as small a
size as possible
while enabling use of as many slots in the back of an AT case for the
AGPx, PCI and ISA. I was thinking of using something like an AMD-based
Ethernet chip with the prototype board's VIA motherboard chipset. Anyone
have comments?
Why? Just to have a very small computer? If so, there's a new "standard"
out that about 1/2 the size of a Micro-ATX board... the whole computer's
about 9-10" high... Available in Athlon & Pentium4 flavors...
... If you were looking at the slower machines to save money, the custom
mobo's will cure that...
Just more assorted ramblings... ;-)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger