PDA (Was:RE: [SunRescue] we're all just spoiled (was: re: IPC))

[Pullig, Bruce A.]

Buy the Palm...it will sync with your Sun!  The Sun PDASync software works
better (IMNSHO) than the Palm Hot-Sync for Windows!!! Check it out at:
http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/pdasync/index.html


I'm using an old Palm Professional syncing to my Sun Ultra 10 running
Solaris 8.  
-
Bruce Pullig
UNIX/NetWare Support
CSC Midland, Texas 
(915) 686-5517
ETN: 644-5517
bruce.a.pullig at usa.conoco.com
bpullig at csc.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Hatle, Steven J. [SMTP:shatle at vue.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 25, 2000 9:53 AM
> To:	'rescue at sunhelp.org'
> Subject:	RE: [SunRescue] we're all just spoiled (was: re: IPC)
> 
> All,
> 
> As a "hanging on by my fingernails" Newton 2100 user, I've been sitting
> the
> fence between Palm and the new Compaq Ipaq.
> 
> I like my Newton, but since the software pipeline has pretty well dried
> up,
> I can see the handwriting on the wall (no pun intended). The chance of any
> new application I might need being developed is slim, and I don't need to
> learn how to program it <grin>.
> 
> I can do sync with Outlook with a 3rd party program I have, and the
> Internet
> connectivity via PCMCIA is better than I've seen on any other PDA.
> 
> The StrongArm in there (160 Mhz?) is plenty fast- as good as the Palms or
> Ipaq's I've tried as far as moving around within and between apps.
> 
> I'll probably be a new Ipaq user before too long. The platform seems more
> versatile to me, though it's hard to argue with the market share of Palm.
> 
> I'm open to constructive harangues on why I should buy one or the other
> <grin>
> 
> Steve
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Hebel [mailto:druaga at pmail.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:24 AM
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: RE: [SunRescue] we're all just spoiled (was: re: IPC)
> 
> 
> >>CE is no better than 9x, and in many ways it's much worse.
> 
> I'll second that.  I've used "wince" on my PDA and I really hate it.
> 
> >>When comparing PDAs, don't forget that a typical CE machine has
> >>a 200 MHz R4400 or equivalent. None of the ARM-based ones have
> >>anything less than a StrongARM. All of the old SH3 machines
> >>have long since been dropped because CE is just too slow on
> >>a 60+ MHz 680x0 clone!
> 
> My Uniden PC-100 is a 75mhz MIPS and is "ok" for CE 2.0 but still bogs
> down
> and locks up occasionally.  I wish there was an easy way for me to re-burn
> the OS rom.  It's a MIPS chip so I bet I could port Linux MIPS to it.
> That
> would be really cool!
> 
> >>Palms, Psions, and the like are all using much slower CPUs with
> >>a much more efficient OS.
> 
> Handspring seems to have made the best go of it so far IMHO.  They have a
> fairly zippy box that runs anything Palm due to their licensing.  On top
> of
> that they have the Handspring modules.  (*drool* want visor-phone *drool*)
> They even seem to have a good battery life.
> 
> >>The other side of CE is that its reliability is even worse than 9x.
> >>Microsoft's own example code contains workarounds for kernel race
> >>conditions by using sleep() calls. The documentation doesn't see
> >>anything wrong with this, but does note that it may be necessary
> >>to increase the time of the sleep() on newer, faster machines!
> 
> Not to mention lockups, program incompatibilities between CPU types,
> bloated
> memory requirements, etc...  I think that CE will hang around for another
> few years if that and then be dumped by Microsoft.  Probably during the
> breakup.
> 
> Just my $.02. ;-)
> 
> Mike Hebel
> 
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