Re: [ooc-compiler] Im new here and need 1st help

[Stewart G. <sgr...@ip...>]

mu...@in... wrote:
> 
> "Ulrich Schmidt" <ul...@gm...> wrote:
> > Im a Pascal fan and i want bild a compiler for epoc, that is running on epoc
> > (ARM7100).
> 
> I'm also an EPOC fan and would love to have some kind of Oberon on my
> Psion Series 5mx.  Unfortunately I don't have time at the moment as I'm
> busy finishing my dissertation.  See http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/~muller/
> for more info.  I hope to have some time at the end of the year for such
> a project.
> 
> At the ETH we have done some work with the StrongARM processor, which is
> not directly compatible with the ARM7, but it is close.
> 
> In 1998 I supervised the Diplomarbeit of Andreas Signer, who developed an
> Oberon compiler for the StrongARM, and ported the Native Oberon system to
> a network computer (the DNARD "Shark") based on this chip.
> 
> See http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/group/gutknecht/stud_work/1998WS_asigner/
> (his report is also available online, see the link at the end).
> 
> I am currently supervising the Diplomarbeit of Bernhard Egger, who is
> porting Patrik Reali's new Active Oberon compiler (not OP2) to the
> StrongARM, and will then port the Aos system to the same network computer.
> His work will be finished in August.
> 
> We decided on the Shark for a first port, because we know its hardware
> quite well.  Other choices were the Psion or Compaq iPAQ.

The iPaq is a very cool machine.

Compaq are strongly supporting the development of Linux for the iPaq. With
a PCMCIA sleeve you can use most of the devices supported by the regular
Linux drivers (eg. network, hard-disk, etc). I used a wireless LAN card to
network with a Linux laptop computer. No doubt, this can be done with
Windows CE too. However, under Unix there is a regular shell running on the
PDA, so you login via a terminal, NFS-mount a remote directory (wired, or
wireless) and run stuff natively on the PDA (eg. a compiler).

Technically I suppose its not that hard to do, but people (me included) are
always impressed to see such small devices doing real work.

Cheers,
  Stewart