Palm sync with linux

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, at 8:09am, mcostolo at yahoo.com wrote:
> I seem to recall that the design of the Compaq handheld more naturally
> lent it to Linux implementation for one reason or another.

  The iPaq's have a "real" processor, with a MMU (Memory Management Unit).  
Most Palm's (excepting the newer "PalmOS 5.0" units) all use Motorola
Dragonball microprocessors, which lack memory management.  Thus, "ucLinux"  
lacks a lot of the features that one would expect in "Linux".

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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