[NTLUG:Discuss] Linux in a wristwatch

[greenglow484@juno.com]

Steve --

And another cool thing about all this is that none of this
stuff_is_vaporware:  It is all here, now (maybe experimental on the
watch, but it exists); not some gas-bag M$ announcement of an
"initiative" to be done years from now, etc.  (BTW, whatever happened to
the "Wintone" dial tone we were supposed to see now, out of Redmond?)

This all shows the immense flexibility and adaptability of Linux:  From
IBM's super-clusters in New Mexico; to this wristwatch and the Phillips
Nino; to your server, to my GUI desktop, and everything else in-between. 
Expand it; contract it; modify it and make it your "own", to meet your
own needs.  That_is what free (speech) software lets you do.

That is something which other, bloated, bug-ridden, anti-competitive,
anti-innovative, monopoly OS'es try to do, but haven't yet.  They can't;
they won't.

On Fri, 11 Aug 2000 01:57:17 -0500 Steve Baker <sjbaker1 at airmail.net>
writes:

........
> I was actually *more* excited about the announcement of a working 
> Linux *with*
> X-windows on a Philips Nino PDA.  The Nino is a REALLY nice PDA - 
> but it suffers
> from not being a Palm Pilot...no compatibility.  However it has a 
> bright, full
> colour display, lots more RAM and flash memory - and FAR less nasty 
> restrictions
> like the 32kb maximum code size that the Palm is stuck with.
> 
> With it running Linux, it's automatically got a *ton* of stuff you 
> could use
> with it - right out of the box.
> 
> 
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