[Mono-devel-list] mono for PalmOS

[Mike Stanley]

I believe the next generation of the Palm OS will support memory
management and multitasking architectures --
http://palmsource.com/palmos/cobalt.html

As for non-mmu devices, perhap's the uClinux project -
http://www.uclinux.org/description/ is a good resource for figuring out
how you can go about porting mono

- Mike

On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 13:29, Michael L Torrie wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 10:48, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> > I am not using Palm OS, however in Windows world there is .NET compact
> > framework, which is essentially a subset of .NET framework. Perhaps it
> > is the time for "Mono Embedded"?
> 
> Well, Windows CE is a real operating system that only runs on platforms
> with an MMU.  PalmOS is a real embedded OS that runs on hardware without
> an MMU.  Thus just because .NET is available on embedded windows does
> not mean it will be easy to run on non-MMU systems.
> 
> Micahel
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> > Best regards,
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> > Ioannis Vranos
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> > Michael L Torrie wrote: 
> > > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 18:26, john bailo wrote:
> > >   
> > > > Then how come java apps run on it ?
> > > > 
> > > > http://software.palmone.com/Platform_javaSoftware.jsp?siteId=1153&catalog=1&title=Java&page=&topOption=3
> > > >     
> > > I'm sure given enough volunteers and effort, Mono could be ported to
> > > just about any turing machine.  We should note that only a subset of
> > > java has been ported, which is the Java 2 Micro Edition.  Not sure what
> > > changes they had to make to support the non-mmu environments.
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