nanogui: CoPilot running under MicroWindows?
Subject:
Re: CoPilot running under MicroWindows?
From:
Robert Hartley ####@####.####
Date:
13 Feb 2001 18:04:53 -0000
Message-Id: <3A8977E9.EA774997@ics.com>
Jordan,
That would be really, really cool!
I had a buddy of mine tell me that running anything besides a Palm was "dumb"
because it has all the applications, but I disagreed with him and bought some
MIPS based PDAs anyways, since I knew they ran Linux. I asked if him if he
had anything against Unix type OSs running on MIPS chips, but he kept quiet
for a minute.... he works for SGI. :)
I am thinking now that it is a good thing for us that the Palm is built in
such slow hardware, since emulation will not be as bad.
On the same note, we have a customer building software that goes into some
military applications:
It was originally written years ago in 'C' and assembler and ran on an M68K
platform, but with a an upgrade to a faster new RS6000 PowerPC platform, they
find that it is actually quicker running under emulation than the orignal was
in the first place.
Rob
Jordan Crouse wrote:
> I have POSE running under Microwindows on the desktop right now. It
> took a pretty extensive rewrite of the configure.in file
> plus a good amount of hacking here and there throughout the system.
> With the skin and everything, I don't think it is very
> useful for embedded devices (that, and the binary is 2 and a half
> megs!), so I am going to try and cut out the uneeded parts, and
> see if we can't get a reasonable PALM emulator that will run on the
> various platforms. Wouldn't that be cool?
