Survex 1.0 within sight

[Wookey]

On Thu 17 Aug, John Pybus wrote:

> In short if I was starting this again today, I would rather be
> developing for one of these: http://www.agendacomputing.com/ .
> Apparently a Linux 2.4 kernel(hmm), a 66MHz MIPS processor, and an X
> Windows based display, but of course not actually shipping yet ;-)

Ah but you can already get something extremely similar - the Compaq
ipaq3600 along with an armlinux port by compaq research labs, (which we
hope to be flogging sometime fairly soon, so I might have a couple spare
at some point....). 

http://www.handhelds.org/platforms.html

(200Mhz strongarm, 16 or 32Mb ram, ~360 quid). It does seem like a neat
device except for the abscence of a keyboard, which is neat for
caving/waterproofing but a pain in the arse for most other things.

There's going to be loads of this sort of thing over the next couple of
years...

Wookey
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