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Very cool. But how much easier this gentleman's life would be if the source for the OS had been released as free software, like some other systems from that era
by cmrdporcupine 3y ago
Very cool. But how much easier this gentleman's life would be if the source for the OS had been released as free software, like some other systems from that era (e.g. see "EmuTOS" for the Atari ST platform, based off of the GPL'd sources from Digital Research's GEM / GEMDOS via Caldera, etc.)
Which of the various corpses of Palm assets/acqusitions did this stuff end up in, IP ownership wise?
- tredre3 3y agoPersonally I think the JIT approach is infinitely more interesting than if he had just recompiled an OS to target slightly different hardware. Both interesting projects to be sure, but to me (and maybe the author) there's more satisfaction in running unmodified binary software on a readily available microcontroller.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoOh, for sure, though attempting to rewrite all those graphics routines sounds like a nightmare. So weird how Palm got stuck in a halfway state between architectures like that. I suppose it's not too dissimilar to where Apple was mid 90s with the 68k->PowerPC transition in MacOS.