Subject: Re: UCS-2 vs. UCS-4
From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jun 28 2001 - 08:44:56 CDT
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Thomas Fletcher wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, WJCarpenter wrote:
>
> > ms> Quite reasonable on todays workstations. In a years time it will
> > ms> be even more reasonable.
> >
> > OK, but explain again to me the recurring lucid dream about running
> > AbiWord on PDAs and embedded systems... :-(
>
> It isn't a dream ... it is a potential reality. Why?
> Because:
> 1) AbiWord is smaller than mozilla =;-) (though we
> are gaining fast with each new "feature" !)
> 2) AbiWord runs on QNX in Photon which is a
> real-time system targetted at the embedded space of
> which one target market are the consumer electronics
> guys.
> 3) I've done it =;-)
>
Very very cool :-)
I was thinking more about this. This is another good reason to have a 1.0
release. Our 1.0 has more than enough features for a PDA. Once it's out
there and stable it can be tweaked into different form factors.
Let's face it, the Word Processor you want for your QNX powered Fridge is
not what you need on your desktop :-)
Cheers
Martin
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