From help-octave-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu Fri Oct 22 08:03:32 1999 Subject: Re: Palm Devices From: Neil Davey To: Daniel Heiserer cc: jebara at media dot mit dot edu, help-octave@bevo.che.wisc.edu Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 23:05:54 +1000 (EST) On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Daniel Heiserer wrote: > jebara at media dot mit dot edu wrote: > > > > I know this is really unlikely but is there a chance that > > a very slimmed down version of Octave will be ported > > to palm devices (i.e. Palm Pilot) anytime? > > > > There are some programmable calculators available for > > palm pilots that do graphing, branching, functions, > > conditionals, linear algebra, etc. already so the hardware > > could accommodate it somewhat. > > > > Thanks... > > > > I have somewhere heard about linux on the PALM Pilot. > > Maybe that is a way? > > daniel > not an easy way... there is a port of Linux being developed for palm devices, but it requires a whole new memory card for the palms, about 4 meg ram and 8 meg flash rom... and it ain't to cheap, in respect to cost of the palm... Neil > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. To ensure > that development continues, see www.che.wisc.edu/octave/giftform.html > Instructions for unsubscribing: www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neil Davey Postgraduate Research Student Radio Science Laboratory School of Microelectronic Engineering Griffith University, Nathan, QLD Australia 4111 Ph: 3875 5574 Fax: 3875 5198 Mobile: 0414 662 110 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Life is but a journey involving bigger and bigger fences ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Linux - Don't fear the penguin...... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Octave is freely available under the terms of the GNU GPL. To ensure that development continues, see www.che.wisc.edu/octave/giftform.html Instructions for unsubscribing: www.che.wisc.edu/octave/archive.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------