Re: OT: Best PDA?
On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 07:54:42AM +0100, Jonathan Gift wrote:
> Jim Richardson wrote:
>
> > the older IIIX(E) series, the new m100 is smaller) If all you are going
> > to do is take notes, then you can get the cheaper 2MB visor, but if you
>
> Yes, just notes. I assume Visor uses the Palm OS and apps/applets? Would
> it be better to get more ram, if so, why?
Yes, the visor uses PalmOS, as a licencee from the Palm folks.
as an aside, the visor is produced by the folks who originally did the
palm itself, they split off to form Handspring inc and build the visor.
>
> > Ipaq, (expensive and hard to get) can use linux, I don't know how well
> > they work as a pda though. Anyway, for price and convenience, go with a
> > visor or palm.
>
> How does it use Linux. If it's to present the same front end as the
> others, then it's of limited interest. If it's to give you a command
> prompt and run vi, that's another story...
you get a cmd line, or the gui front end, or both, your choice.
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Jim Richardson
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