[H-GEN] Hand Held Computers

[Ben Fowler]

On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Raymond Smith wrote:

> On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, David Shackleton wrote:
> > The last time I checked out the Newton's for a programming project (stock
> > control) there wasn't a lot of choice other than burn a PCMCIA card for
> > use in the Newton...  has this changed considerably?
> 
> I believe that Newton's can be programed using a Pascal-like language
> called NewtonScript. Development platforms exist for the Mac or you can
> write your programs and run them on the Newton. The DSTC is working on
> some tools to program in NewtonScript under UNIX.
> 
> The Pilot seems to have better PC support. A friend of mine mumbled about
> CodeWarrior targeting the Pilot, but I can't confirm this.

Yes, there is a fair bit of stuff out there for deveoping apps for the
Pilot.  The ones I know about are CodeWarrior (you have to buy a seperate
version IIRC), and I believe there are free GNU tools for Pilot
application development as well as Pilot "virtual machines" that can be
used under X to test out apps before downloading them to the Pilot.

The best place to start in finding out more about Pilot programming would
be the Pilot developer support pages at http://www.3com.com.

Hope this helps.

- regards,

Ben.

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