Re: hand-held computers Re: Electronic commerce has long way to go

[Eric Murray <ericm@lne.com>]

Bryce writes:
> 
> 
> > After watching Ian Goldberg's demo of all the neat things one can do on an
> > US Robotics Palm Pilot PDA, I decided to purchase such a device.
> 
> 
> Hm.  I have already sent out e-mails to on-line merchants 
> asking if I can order a Newton, because I've heard from several
> people that Newton has a superior user interface, and I know 
> that its CPU is super fast.
> 
> 
> Unfortunately there is not yet any PGP or Ecash for Newton 
> publically available.
> 
> 
> How about for Pilot?
> 
> 
> Is there gcc or any other C compiler for Pilot?  (There is not,
> yet, for Newton a publically available C compiler AFAIK.)


There's a GCC development environment for the Pilot that
runs under Linux.   Also packages for synching, logging in from
the Pilot to unix, perl tools, assemblers, disassemblers, and
about 400 other things.

Check out http://www.inforamp.net/~adam/pilot/ for info.

It's pretty cool how much stuff is available for the pilot.  It's
too bad that I need either a full workstation with all the trimmings, or
just a pen and a (paper) notebook.

 
> What _are_ the cool things Ian Goldberg can do with a Pilot, 
> anyway?

SSL, telnet, ssh, xcopilot, a POP mail client and some more stuff.
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/pilot/



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