[geeks] Ultra-Portable UNIX

Sridhar Ayengar ploopster at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 20:57:26 CST 2006


Micah R Ledbetter wrote:
> I've been turned on to the HPC market again, from digging up my old  
> Velo1 (which won't run Linux in its current state - I need to upgrade  
> RAM and Windows CE, of all things, to make it work).
> 
> What is an HPC, you ask? It stands for Handheld PC, which were  
> invented before the Palm IIRC. They have keyboards smaller than full- 
> size, but larger than a Blackberry - I can't touch-type on my Velo1,  
> for instance, and almost all other HPCs were that way.
> 
> I have come across quite a few interesting things since then, but one  
> of the coolest is the NEC MobilePro 780 (in the same family: the 770,  
> 790)
<SNIP>

Been there, done that, got the T-Shirt.

Peace...  Sridhar



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