[PLUG] PSX

[Richard June]

A Braunsdorf wrote:
> 
> 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.
I would have to say that a handheld linux machine would be infinitly
more useful than a handheld dos machine. Nor am I disagreeing that the
time spent porting might be better spent masturbating, but people do
stuff like that for the same reason people climb mountains, because they
can. besides, if you could get a keyboard and modem for a playstation,
run linux w/ a browser and e-mail client there are valid uses. I would
do it, why? because then my family could get on the internet w/out tying
up my computer(my ma's windows box won't work w/ a modem for some
strange reason, and it's too far for a network.