On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jim Richardson wrote:

>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.

/me imagines a pilot 5000 with X.....:)

>

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