Have any of your seen the PocketLinux project? They are taking
various palm devices and installing a Linux kernel along with
the Kaffe Virtual Machine.
Apparently, most applications (and the handwriting recognition
software) are written Java:
http://www.pocketlinux.com/
The really neat thing is that you can pick up a VTech Helio
palm device (which retails for $149) and install this stuff.
With a 75Mhz Risc chip, 8 Megs of RAM (+ 2 Megs of flash
storage) that's quite a nice little unit.
An interesting contrast is my first "powerful" PC (which I
used to write my Masters Thesis). It was a 25 Mhz Intel
386, with 8 Megs of RAM and a "large" 40 Meg Hard Disk. I
haggled the sales people down to about $1,300 for that
little beauty!
Anyway, I'll just bet SableVM could work on that device
as well, if we ported all appropriate native classes.
(Obviously this will wait until SableVM's functionality is
better on a full-fledged machine)!
-Brent
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