A Linux PDA? (was Re: Can the Newton be carried on beyond Apple?)

[Kenneth C. Orr]

On 15 Mar 1997 00:54:48 GMT, "David Perdue" <dpe...@netime.com>
wrote:

>
>
>Dub Dublin - Sun Network Ambassador <dub.d...@central.sun.com> wrote in
>article <3329BD...@central.sun.com>...
>> Lars Hecking wrote:
>> >
>> > wol...@mail.idt.net (Nerobro) writes:
>> >
>> > > NOW I am Mad. Unix LOVES to inhale RAM. But Then again So does
>> > > everything else but DOS. (640k will run almost anything) Well My
>Point is
>> > > that the Most user friendly (not necessarily palmtop Freindly, That
>is
>> > > NewtonOS) Is The MacOS. It will Run full Windows on 128k of ram and
>a
>> > > 400k floppy, and it will Multitask on 1meg ram and a 800k floppy.
>beat
>> > > that.
>> >
>> > 1986, Amiga 1000, AmigaDOS: GUI and multitasking in 256k ram.
>
>Try the COCO III, (Tandy) multitasking with 12 virtual consoles with 512k
>of ram.
>I never had it crash.
>

That is if you are using OS-9 Level II

Actually, OS-9 LII can run in as low as 128k COCO II with OS-9
Level I multitasks with only 64K.

I think OS-9 stil aroung in 68k incarnations, but I am no sure.

Its nice to know I wasn't the only one that used thouse babes. At one
point I had one COCO II with 64K running OS9 Level I and two COCO
III, one with 128k and the other 512k, running OS9 Level II.

Unfortunally I don't own them any more :( They were nice machine to
play with.

Ken

>--dp