From: Richard Steiner on
Here in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,
Jeffrey Kaplan <nomail(a)gordol.org> spake unto us, saying:

>Access did not purchase the rights to PalmOS, Access purchased
>PalmSource, the original owners of PalmOS. Palm, Inc purchased rights
>to PalmOS +from+ Access so they (Palm, not Access) can develop their
>own future version of PalmOS.

I see. Huh.

>Confused yet?

Man, I was *born* confused. :-)

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Mainframe/Unix bit twiddler by day, OS/2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night.
WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it!
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.
From: Richard Steiner on
Here in comp.sys.palmtops.pilot,
Jim Anderson <fro2750(a)frontiernet.my_finger.net> spake unto us, saying:

>Conduits do not work, Access only have the old legacy PIMs.

I've not tried to do any form of hotsynching yet, but supposedly it
will work via wifi via TCP/IP.

>Have snappy do they run?

Compared to my IIIc, very fast. :-) Most games are timed, of course,
so the CPU speed isn't relevant.

>Is there allot of apps for this Unix dist?

The Linux-based native desktop environment for the Nokia webtablets is
called Maemo, and there seems to be a nice basic selection of software,
but a lot of stuff has not yet been ported.

This will give you a basic idea:

http://downloads.maemo.org/OS2006

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-Rich Steiner >>>---> http://www.visi.com/~rsteiner >>>---> Mableton, GA USA
Mainframe/Unix bit twiddler by day, OS/2+Linux+DOS hobbyist by night.
WARNING: I've seen FIELDATA FORTRAN V and I know how to use it!
The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then.