How's Psion support coming?
Best Regards,
-Jamie
GS Jones wrote:
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am new to the Rebol list though I have been following the progress of
> Rebol for a while. I was wondering if their is a Palm/OS version of Rebol
> anticipated.
> >
> > Thanks for all your input!
> >
> > Tom Schaeper
>
> Hi, Tom,
> You may have figured out that there is a 15-20 minute delay in the relaying
> of posts:-)
>
> Here is an excerpt from a message a couple weeks ago:
> >From Jeff on 11-Apr-2001:
>
> Yes, the REBOL Palm port lives in a border town next to the
> realm of "possibility". REBOL has even been compiled for
> Palm before, but the problem is that in order for REBOL to
> run (or even to boot) a segmentation paging scheme (virtual
> memory) has to be used. Under such a scheme, page faults
> would occur constantly. More time would be spent moving
> memory than in being an interpreter. As you approach the
> problem of a REBOL Palm port, it becomes increasingly
> infeasible.
>
> The other approach is to hack the memory protection of Palm
> OS. This isn't acceptable, though, because of the potential
> for accidentally hurting other apps or data on the pda.
>
> There's still more issues, from Palm's event model and how
> REBOL's works, potentially workable, but still an issue.
>
> And how do you write scripts -- in graffiti?? Storing and
> load scripts from the database?
>
> Anyhow, there were enough demonstrable problems with it that
> we scrapped consideration of the Palm -- to the
> disappointment of many.
>
> -jeff
>
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