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Re: The P5 based display

> As it says on our web site, the Fax-view (which contains the P5 display) 
> is basically a dumbed down 68000 based computer with ~2 meg of ram. The
> best part is that the boot code and fax-view program appear to reside in
> flash. The future of this project may include doing some work in the flash
> to make a VT100, x-term, or something along those lines... perhaps even an
> OS, but I'm dreaming now.

Linux has been ported to the 68000 (which is MMU-less, so memory is handled
differently than an ordinary Linux target; a pre-alpha system of sorts runs
on the PalmPilot---see http://ryeham.ee.ryerson.ca/uClinux/).

So the dream may not be far away, especially since there's flash
in the Faxview---the PalmPilot memory-expansion boards are the same.

Cheers,
Peter Monta   
Imedia Corp.

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