Re: [PLUG] PDAs

[Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org>]

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On Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 03:46 PM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> It doesn't run Linux, but my Newton MessagePad 2100 is the best
> PDA I've ever used, and I've used quite a few. Find them for around
> $150 on eBay.

I'll have to disagree on the grounds that it is nearly the size of an 
iBook and therefore too darned big to be considered a PDA.  ;-)

> (I'd argue that Linux is ill-fitted to this application. You neither
> need nor want a full-fledged, general-purpose operating system here.
> If you wanted that, you'd be getting a full-fledged computer, no
> matter how small.)

I agree.  I have an ancient old Palm V with "only" 2MB and it is 
overkill.

Chris Hedemark
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