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building a pda

I am interested in building a pda/ebook reader type device from scratch. I have read several posts on this group and others about this topic yet still have a few questions... I want to build something fairly low power and simple, using a dragonball or coldfire from motorola, or an arm system on chip. I also have a thought about using several z80's or similar for some sort of handheld multi-processing device (just for kicks, sounds cool)... In regards to an os I was thinking of an os such as uClinux

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but am open to others...don't know too much about what is available for the various microcontrollers and microprocessors. I would like to do this without having to write a massive amount of custom software, though I fear it may be unavoidable... Any information here would be appreciated. thanks in advance

Ron

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Ron Irwin
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Ron,

handhelds.org seems to be a fairly complete starting point for all kinds of Linux software to run on a PDA: distributions, GUI, apps...

Eric

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Eric Dujardin

I'd like to know more about this too.

You can have a look at

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, it could help.

Post any news on ng.

Bye

Reply to
suppaman

why not buy one of the oem type pda's

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supposedly US$38 each with no moq

then just use the linux for palm port. or others os's(roms etc).

or something like

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but don't give pricing info.
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board.htm

their network boards look good as well.

Also

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What is it with Korean companies and not putting pricing up ?

There is an ecos port for it as well as uClinx and linux ports. Plenty of linux ports for arm processors.

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Alex Gibson

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