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Compaq Handheld Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the katt-katches-on dept.

bobalu writes "There's a bit in PCWEEK's Spencer Katt column about a handheld unit from Compaq that runs Linux and is designed as a platform for developing new speech and other interfaces." Yeah we've mentioned itsy before, but someone submits that darn thing about every 3 days, so it's probably worth reposting it now just because not all of the readers who have joined us in the last 6 months are gonna read the 4 thousand or so back stories *grin*.

9 comments

  1. Itsy? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The article is /.'ed so I couldn't read it. But I thought the Itsy was a product of UW and not for sale.

  2. More Info Here ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No real info at the ZDNet site, there is more details at PDA Buzz.

  3. Whatever... I want it!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Yeah, sure, old news, and whatever... I still want one of those little buggers. They'd give PalmPilots a run for their money any day. Not to mention Wince devices...

  4. Remember the Monkey Arm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I realize that it's just a prototype, and probably has quite a bit of usability testing to go, but this "Rock 'n' Scroll" idea seems a bit goofy to me. I don't have extensive experience with handhelds, but based on my book-handling habits, I expect I'd be scrolling all over the place as I shift positions for comfort, lay the thing down for a minute, move it for good light, etc.

  5. I want one! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And those crack whores at Compaq aren't selling them! C'mon guys, I know they'd sell like hot cakes.

    Interestingly enough, later in the article they talk about Microsoft SNA server, now positioned as a data warehous product and code named "Babylon," very aproproiate given Microsoft products' general inability to communicate with anything else on the network. It'd be either that or Roach Motel "Your Data checks in but it doesn't check out."

  6. Etch-a-Sketch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    With all this movin-and-shakin ability, maybe you could erase stuff by shaking it like an Etch-a-Sketch?

  7. Thank you, dear A.C. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    (Imagine B5 operated by Windows 2200!)
    And what did you think happened to B's 1 through 4?

  8. Spencer Katt... by Codifex+Maximus · · Score: 1

    is always good for a chuckle and his editorials and cartoons are trendy. The itsy article was interesting in that it showed that Linux warrants attention from the big OEM's.

    Check out the cartoons too. Especially the one regarding ARMONK. HEHEhehe... Is the Katt psychic?

    --
    Codifex Maximus ~ In search of... a shorter sig.
  9. NASA spacecraft lands on the moon by Nicolas+MONNET · · Score: 1
    'This is a small step ...'


    Anyway, it's been months since I heard about the Itsy for the first time. The only 'new' thing about it is that it's now branded Compaq(TM) instead of D.E.C. ...