Re: [OT]: XWisp on a PDA (PPC2002)

> > I use Wouters excellent Wisp628 with the Python XWisp, and was
> thinking that  as there is a Windows CE version of Python, would it not
> be possible to have  a PDA as a very portable field programmer?
>
> Does the CE python support serial port access?


** If it's platform independent it should. Will investigate further.


> > ...Now that JAL is open license, wouldn't it be nice to have a JAL
> compiler
> in a PDA...???
>
> Jal is very memory hungry. Does a PDA use vertual memory? If not you
> would need at least 10 Mb or so (free!) to do a reasonable compilation.
> And doe sit use a 32-bit chip?
>
> Wouter van Ooijen
>

** It doesn't use virtual memory, but I don't think they come with less than
32 MB anyways. Most have 64 MB and provision for various add-on storage (SD,
MMC, CF etc).
The CPU is a 32 bit Intel Xscale PXA250, comes in flavours of 200 - 400 MHz.

/Sluggo