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Hmm... I wonder how "mobile linux" will stack up against EPOC32, which is a pretty good OS for palmtops?

Also, this processor could be pretty cool for running the tao virtual machine that amiga are using for their network environment - remember, amiga have already said they're going to run stuff on top of linux in palmtops.

Hmm... maybe it'll run the tao virtual processor thing too. Read through the intent/elate technology brief on their pages, and a code-morphing OS seems ideally suited to a code-morphing processor, don't you think?

I reckon one aim is to run the Tao virtual processor natively. It's like a Java VM, but for any language. It has the potential to achieve the write-once run anywhere promise that Sun failed to deliver. Pretty cool. Also, Tao have been linked with Sony and Amiga, who have both been linked with Transmeta.

A Jave servlet based solution would be SLOWER ald probably flakier than a Perl based one. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Java is not very efficient.

Admittedly, the Perl code could probably be cleaner, and object-oriented (Object Oriented Perl is a great book...), but java is not the "way forward" Sun make it out to be. If you want a much cooler take on the whole Virtual Machine concept, take a look at the Tao group / Amiga stuff that's been happening on the quiet (and note also that the Tao VM looks ideal to run on the Transmeta processor, and that Sony have been pumping money into Tao) www.tao-group.com