Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 30 Jan 1997 09:16:45 -0500 | From | Eric Youngdale <> | Subject | Re: USRobotics Pilot 68000 and OS in ROM, Fancy that! |
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>I just got my USRobotics Pilot and noticed, this is a 68000 family CPU, >and the OS is in ROM. Hmmm...
No, not in ROM. You can upload new OS versions into the thing if you want/need. The model 5000 has 512K RAM, so you don't have much to play with.
Running even a stripped down Linux/X seems out of the question - you have to be *very* conservative about memory usage all the way through. Still they give you enough that in principle it should be possible.
I thought it would be pretty funny if someone wrote a Pilot app that displayed what looked like an xterm in it, however. You could put a message like 'connection to remote host lost', or something like that :-).
-Eric
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