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RE:Re: [TCLUG:6132] Itsy's Back...
oh man, i'm jealous!
hope ya'll have a great time..
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Original Message
From: "Bob Tanner"<tanner@real-time.com>
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:6132] Itsy's Back...
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 21:26:47 -0500
>Troy are you at the Linux Expo?
>
>We should hook up and talk.
>
>I have lots of notes to share with the LUG when I get back.
>
>Quoting Troy Johnson (john1536@tc.umn.edu):
>> I have sent some comments to Compaq at this address:
>>
>> http://www.compaq.com/comments.html
>>
>> because I'd really like to see something like the Itsy in the near
>> future. Here is an article url:
>>
>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/990521-000027.html
>>
>> and here is the article:
>>
>> Posted 21/05/99 5:03pm by Tony Smith
>>
>> Compaq may release Linux micro-PC to open
>> sourcers
>>
>> John Gettys, Compaq consulting engineer and Linux Expo keynoter,
>> yesterday said a
>> tiny, 'deck of cards'-sized computer developed by the PC vendor might
>> be made
>> available to the open source community.
>>
>> The Palm-style device, dubbed Itsy, sports a
>> 200x300-pixel
>> screen, contains 32MB of memory, is powered by a
>> 200MHz processor and is based on Linux. It was
>> developed by Compaq's Western Research Lab,
>> based in
>> Palo Alto, California.
>>
>> Itsy is based on a voice-recognition system that
>> promises
>> to do away with even the fiddly styles favoured
>> by most
>> shipping handheld machines. Gettys said the
>> device could
>> be used to access and download email.
>>
>> Gettys also said Compaq was investigating whether the Itsy device
>> could be "made
>> available to the Linux community". Quite what be meant by this is
>> unclear. If the device
>> is as powerful as he suggested, it's hard to imagine Compaq not
>> wanting to turn it into
>> a commercial product.
>>
>> That said, Compaq is currently backing Windows CE, and releasing a
>> Linux-based
>> handheld too, might confuse the market and, what's more, annoy
>> Microsoft. The
>> Western Research Lab was acquired by the company when it bought
>> Digital. Given it
>> appears to be having difficulty figuring out what to do with Alpha, it
>> might experience
>> similar problems with Itsy.
>>
>> In any case, given Itsy is based on a modified version of the Linux
>> kernel, the OS at
>> least would have to be released under the GNU Public Licence. Which,
>> given that's
>> how 3Com is attempting to build developer support for the Palm
>> platform, might well
>> give Itsy a lead too.
>>
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