[Fwd: PalmPilot kernel] (fwd)

[frank.kannemann@Canada (Frank Kannemann - SunService Ottawa SSE)]

Hi,

I thought I would forward this information along for those UNix Techies
on the list...

There is a "Fake" Pilot available for PC's called COPilot.

I don't know if anyone ported it to Solaris. I used it to try out the
Pilot to see if I liked....

Keep up the great work!

Frank

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> Logan Shaw wrote:
> > 
> > I thought some people would find this interesting:
> > 
> > I took a Pilot ROM image (of PalmOS 1.0) and did the Unix commandj
> > "strings /tmp/Pilot.ROM | grep -i copyright" on it, and got this:
> > 
> >         Graffiti 1.0, Copyright Palm Computing 1995.-
> >         Copyright (c) 1994-1995 KADAK Products Ltd.
> > 
> > Then, I went to <URL:http://www.kadak.com> and looked around, and it
> > appears they are the makers of a realtime, multitasking kernel for the
> > 68000 series processors (among others) called AMX.  Sure enough, the
> > string "AMX 68000 Kernel" also appears in the Pilot ROM image.
> > 
> > So, you can go look at that URL if you want more information about the
> > kernel.  (Though you don't get that much more technical info.)  It is
> > a message-passing kernel, which I thought was interesting (being a
> > Unix nerd).  Actually, it sounds pretty similar to the old AmigaDOS
> > kernel, although probably a bit more sophisticated.
> > 
> >   - Logan
> > --
> > Logan Shaw, Unix Systems Administrator
> > "everybody / loves to see / justice done / on somebody else" (Bruce Cockburn)
>