On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 04:12:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>To many people here who follows the equipment which has been embeded
>with Linux, knows that there is a thing called "Itsy" which is a similar
>PDA like palm-pilot (OK, palm is better, I know).
>
>Recently, I've been hearing from Compaq that they don't have any plan to
>manufacture it... Until Yesterday...
>
>There is a fax newspaper called "Boker Tov", issue 2529 from yesterday
>(28/6) which have a 1 line news that Compaq WILL manufacture it...
I don't know about the "WILL manufacture" part, however, Itsy was
demoed at a Linux convention at Duke in North Carolina bit longer than a
year ago. At the time, the two engineers from DEC passed around a prototype
and after we all drooled over it abundantly [Itsy is half the size of
a Palm Pilot with 16MB RAM + Linux], they said it would take a year
to go from the lab prototype to the market version.
Currently, Compaq has a set of Windows CE palmtops including the Aero
which is roughly the size of the Palm Pilot and has a color screen.
Marketing Itsy means choosing Linux over Microshaft. It would a big step.
alex
----- End forwarded message -----
=================================================================
To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with
the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command
echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
