OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes.. - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

26 Jun 1998

Trust me, I've been looking all over for a Linux port to a otherwise CE
device.  Linux CE... there are distributions that are small enough and with
enough apps to run, but most of them are x86, and I'm betting on a pripority
system bus... so it'd be increasingly difficult..
    Ciao,

Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Ward Donald Griffiths III &lt;gram(a)cnct.com&gt;
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
&lt;classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu&gt;
Date: Saturday, June 27, 1998 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: OS's In ROM's (was: Re: Mac Classic prob (was Macintoshes..


...
 Hotze wrote:
 
 Come to think of it,  ALL of the Windows CE devices have their OS in ROM.
 *My* opinion is that for UNIX hardware, it's going to be UNIX's biggest
 competitor.  Most Windows CE devices run off of UNIX-style processors, as
 that's the only way that they can get any speed inexpensively and with a
 decent battery life. 
So we put Linux on the little bastards.  It's in the works for the Pilot
once the thing carries 4Mb of RAM standard (probably a couple months)
Naturally, it won't be exactly ROM'd.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
 Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_