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[A Braunsdorf]

In message <37D74104.9D8F3756@imagestream-is.com>, Richard June writes:
> 
> I dunno, I would agree about the Palm however it does help prove the
> portability argument...

Whoopee.  Once we had handheld DOS machines at Radio Shack- which
was quite a while before Linux- we had proof of concept on portable
computing.  Guess what?  There are more Palm machines in use than
all other handheld computers put together in the history of the
industry.  Why?  Because they're designed better in a user interface
sense.  They give people what they really >need<.

There are even more Gameboys.  Why?  Because they fill a niche that
other things don't.  More people want to play Tetris while traveling
than recompile a kernel.  Imagine that!

So, yeah, putting Linux on a Palm proves the "portability argument",
but more importantly it shows >my< argument.  Putting Linux on a
Palm (or a PSX or a Mac) takes a perfectly useful system and turns
it into yet another UNIX machine- which probably isn't nearly as
useful as what it was before.

ab