Palmtop NetBSD

sparcv9 writes "The NetBSD Team has added another port to their ever-growing list. This time, it's NetBSD/hpcsh (HPC = Handheld PC, SH = Hitachi Super-H processor), and it currently supports the SH3 processor, with the SH4 promised in the future. It currently runs on the up-until-now WinCE-only HP Jornada palmtop PC."

Comments

doubt it's a winmodem Re:56k Modem

[StandardDeviant]

I somehow doubt it's a winmodem. The processor isn't exactly a computational beast (133mhz, no idea how it would compare on a mhz-mhz basis to an x86 for FPU-intensive stuff like DSP (which you need if yer modem has no hardware chips to do it for the cpu)). If it is a winmodem, I reeeeeally doubt it'll keep a reliable connection, and of course since it'd take up ~99% cpu, all your other apps are going to halt, and your batteries would drain really damn quick... So unless the HP engineers are idiots it's probably a real modem (gotta figure the thing costs enough that the extra $50 or less that differentiates a generic windmodem circuit from a real modem circuit is "invisible").

Sorry of this is incoherent, I'm dead tired...

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Fuck Censorship.

Why ??!

[Sima]

... wasn't this posted on the main page ? If it was Linux, it would be on the main page for sure !

Re:Why ??!

[sparcv9]

Probably because I accidentally submitted it under Topic: BSD, Category: BSD instead of Topic: BSD, Category: Articles. I was hoping that my error would have been noticed and this had made it to the front page, but alas, here it sits.