Re: Linux Port to limited environment (was: RE: tlug: FW: Windows 95)

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Thu, 28 May 1998, Michael Chiu wrote:

> > 
> > By the way, I'm thinking about Linux port to SH-3 or SH-4.  SH is the
> > name of architecutre of 32-bit micro controller (or CPU) of Hitachi.
> > SH-3 is used in Windows CE machine, and I've heard that SH-4 will be
> > used next version of SEGA.
> > 
> > Thanks to Cygnus Solutions, we have GNU developemnt tools (GCC, GDB,
> > GAS...)for SH architecture.  I've build cross development environment
> > on my Linux box already.  No code has been written yet.
> > 
> > Anyone interested?  Currently, I and Ichiro Ogata of ETL are
> > discussing on SH.  If there are more than three people, it could become
> > the "PROJECT". :-)
> 
> 
> That sounds interesting as the SH RISC based CPUs are getting used more
> and more in STB and PDA, as well as other Internet appliances... so I
> guess it would make Linux into a real-time OS?  My boss just got a CE2.0
> NEC Mobile GearII... it's pretty nice in the fact that it is several
> times faster than its predecessors.. might actually go out and get one
> now... 

hehe, I have the predecessor (a MobilePro 200 from NEC)... it's not very
fast, but all I use it for is my addressbook and to make shopping lists
and stuff on when I'm out and about.  I also calculate (er, I did before I
went to Japan) my Rx7's gas mileage on 'Pocket Excel' that it comes with.
I don't think that the applications that people use these little things
for really require a great deal of computing power, though... fortunately,
WinCE (wince?  What marketing idiot came up with this name??) is stable,
and the little guy doesn't crash :)


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