Sharp Zaurus

[Gerhard Häring]

* William Peterson <wpeterson1 at socal.rr.com> [2002-07-18 10:26 -0700]:
> sarayu balu <sbalu at nyx.net> wrote in message news:<1026919964.826307 at irys.nyx.net>...
> > Hi,
> > Is there any Python, more appropriately Jython, for this PDA ?
> > Is Jython Open Source ?
> > Thanks,
> > SB
> 
> Python has been ported, as another poster says.
> 
> For Jython, look at http://www.jython.org/platform.html At the bottom
> of the page, while discussing Kaffe, it says that Jython requires a
> full JVM and will have problems with a VM that only implements the
> PersonalJava subset. I believe this is what you have on the Zaurus, so
> it's questionable whether Jython will work there.

There is a StrongARM port of the Blackdown JDK, but AFAIR it requires an
X-Server for GUI stuff. IIRC there _is_ a Java VM that runs on
QtEmbedded on a StrongARM proc, probably it's a commercial one.

Gerhard
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