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Re: Java on strongArm or in linux?

I think the final line here is that all O/s's can do the same thing.... if
you have gagillion dollars and love to spend it use NT and buy every option
that comes standard in linux, the same goes with win anything, and macOS...
They can do it but at a HUGE cost..  Linux can do it free.. if you like to
tinker and learn use linux... if you want turnkey, spend the big bucks and
go with a commercial OS. and buy every upgrade and function.

Power management is just a way to make bad hardware use less power... if
your hardware platform is optimized for good power use then it isn't needed.

NOTE: the pc-104 is quite nice, but I just noticed a 3X price increase in
all modules and hardware... In fact the latest pricing from one supplier
went up $1000.00 on a 2 port serial card!   It looks like the makers of the
104 platform are interested in pricing themselves out of business.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Keyes <>
To:  <>
Date: Tuesday, June 02, 1998 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Java on strongArm or in linux?

>>Here is a side by side comparison of Linux versus Win95 and MacOS
>>
>>                Linux           Win95           MacOS
>>Price           free            $89             ???
>
>To fill in the blank, MacOS costs $99.  Note, however, that the "full"
>version, as opposed to an upgrade version, of Win95 is $209.  Linux
>wins anyway, of course.
>
>>system size     20+ megs        100+ megs       ???
>
>The MacOS system with all the bells and whistles is about the same
>as Win95, 100+ megs.  Naturally, you can pare it down quite a bit,
>or if resources are at premium even downgrade to a prior version: my
>Mac Plus runs quite nicely with a single 800K MacOS system floppy disk
>and 1 meg of RAM, for instance.
>
>The death blow for a MacOS wearable, though, is the fact that you
>would have to make a wearable out of an existing MacOS computer
>(for instance by tearing apart a PowerBook) rather than making your
>own from compact components like you can with Linux.
>
>- Edward Keyes
>  
>
>

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