Python and "Hand held" computers

[aaron_watters at my-dejanews.com]

> What about Palm Pilot ?

I think the answer still is "It should be possible, but in
practice the Palm Pilot doesn't have enough memory to make
it an interesting proposition, unless you upgrade it to non-standard
sizes."  While it is possible to upgrade the memory (I think)
this means that the audience for palm/Python would probably
be limited to the developers of palm/Python and certain other
hobbiests.  For windows CE, by contrast, many machines come with
enough memory (32meg ram/24meg rom in mine, with 10 hours
of uptime) to make python-ce interesting.

Hope I'm wrong, or the Palm folks change the situation.  We've
seen this situation before in other markets and it doesn't harbor
well for the Palm Pilot (cool as it undeniably is).
Please correct me!!!

btw: gadfly runs on python-ce (with some mods) :)  I think it
is the most fully featured sql implementation that runs on wince.
(pocketAccess is braindead.)
  -- Aaron Watters http://www.chordate.com

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