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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: hamiltonpruim on March 01, 2004, 02:30:28 pm

Title: More Linux than Z...
Post by: hamiltonpruim on March 01, 2004, 02:30:28 pm
But still interesting....http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1863 (http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1863) It\'s IBM\'s Linux PDA offering ......maybe

Hamilton
Title: More Linux than Z...
Post by: dhns on March 01, 2004, 02:49:53 pm
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But still interesting....http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1863 (http://www.bargainpda.com/default.asp?newsID=1863) It\'s IBM\'s Linux PDA offering ......maybe

Hamilton

It was quite quiet about this PowerPC 405LP based reference design. It was announced last year (January?) to come in thrid quarter. In last fall, even all the documentation of the 405LP processor has been pulled off the Internet. So I get the impression that it is some small scale pre-development or research project but not a product.

I personally would very welcome this device as it would bring our Digital Companion project for the Macintosh even closer to the Mac by using the same PowerPC processor. Currently we use the Zaurus/ARM and create \"Fat Binaries\" compiled for two different architectures.

hns
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http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=DigitalCompanion (http://www.dsitri.de/wiki.php?page=DigitalCompanion)
Title: More Linux than Z...
Post by: ganoe on March 01, 2004, 04:10:16 pm
I\'m having difficulty putting much faith in an article that can\'t even get the date of the m500 introduction correct (more like 3 years ago I think, and IBM has still been selling those rebadged Palms up until very recently).

Also, that picture is very familiar.  I think I saw it sometime last fall.
Title: More Linux than Z...
Post by: dhns on March 03, 2004, 07:46:09 am
There is a new announcement for a PowerPC based PDA from Unitech coming at 11th of March. But they call it an \"Industrial PDA\"....

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article....pages=B3&seq=86 (http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2004/03/01&pages=B3&seq=86)
Title: More Linux than Z...
Post by: soycap on March 04, 2004, 12:08:58 am
The pic looks like a repackaged a300:

http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/2243.html (http://www.infosyncworld.com/news/n/2243.html)