Maxima + PalmOS



--- Camm Maguire  wrote:

> FYI, gcl, maxima, acl2 and axiom are all completely functional on any
> Debian arm compatible handheld, like the Zaurus, as far as the word
> 'functional' could apply to using a powerful CAS with such a tiny
> keyboard :-).  I saw an axiom-empowered Zaurus myself at the recent
> axiom conference.

Heh :-).  That's nifty - if I ever get a handheld I'll have to keep
that in mind.  It would present a very interesting challenge in GUI
design - powerful CAS + small screen.
 
> Are you sure one cannot run Debian binaries on a Palm?  Even if not,
> GCL will likely work out of the box given any standard development
> environment.  Full ansi compliance is still a ways off, but what you
> certainly do get with GCL is portable performance.

Got me.  From what little I know PalmOS is kind of its own animal, so I
have no idea if it has any sort of standard development environment
except its own.  GCL on it would be very interesting, but I have no
idea if PalmOS is even vaguely posix in nature or has any sort of
serious compilers.  At a guess, the best bet might be to not mess with
PalmOS but look at http://uclinux.org/, which apparently runs on
PalmPilots.

Cheers,
CY

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