Palm/Python

[Brett g Porter]

Seen this morning on the PHO mailing list. Anyone know anything about this
port?

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Peer-to-Peer Everywhere?
By: Mike Darrah 2/23/01
Published exclusively on PHO mailing list.

Endeavors Technology has announced the successful deployment
of an open source port of Python to the Palm OS, allowing the
company to bring it's "Magi" P2P technology to the Palm OS platform,
and enabling the automation of applications on the Palm OS.

Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming
language, which allows for a great deal of dynamism, ease of
use, power, and flexibility in a programming language, often
compared to Perl or Java.

Endeavors Technology has been focusing on building a common infrastructure
for all and all connected devices, such as PDAs, PCs, servers,
information appliances, and Internet-ready phones to allow the
development of a P2P system structure to enable  software applications
to communicate to one another regardless of what type of device
it is.

Endeavors stated it will work with device manufacturers and software
developers to implement this small footprint, interoperable virtual
machine (VM) across more then just the Palm OS platform, thus
creating the common infrastructure needed to connect the devices
seamlessly in a peer-to-peer network. The technology, named "The
Pippy VM" is an extension of the work pioneered in a joint venture
between The Aerospace Corp. and University of California, Irvine,
which was initially funded in part by the Defense Advanced Research
Project Agency (DARPA).

The company has also already developed similar P2P systems for
the Compaq's iPAQ Pocket PC, announced just last month.

With the announcement of the successful deployment of the Python
port to the Palm OS, Endeavors Technology has taken a bold step
forward into making their vision of a complete P2P network with
all connected devices into a reality.

Additional Information References:
http://www.python.org/
http://www.endeavors.com/
http://www.endeavors.com/tech.html

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