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	Karel Jansens	2006-10-06 , 10:54
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Originally Posted by SD69

These guys are trying some sort of open source design project?? I hope it's not someone's senior design project I could be wrong, but I think there must still be some Psion IP still around somewhere. It's been a long while since I've been doing hard-core engineering, but these guys seem like they don't have a clue about power conservation issues, etc., just pie in the sky what would you want kind of stuff.

http://www.mobilityguru.com/2006/10/...ern_psion_5mx/

I have actually used a 5MX for several years (and a 3a for many years before that) and my first reaction was this: it's not the hardware that makes a Psion.

I did an experiment once: I had an old HP Omnibook 425 lying around, which had a defective "popsicle mouse", so I installed the Psion 3a emulator on it. It transformed a barely usable (even when the mouse was still working) Windows subnotebook into a fantastically productive computer! Too bad I had already moved from Psion to Newton by then, or I probably would still be using that Omnibook.

The Psion SIBO and EPOC operating systems were what made their computers (I still can't bring myself to denominating them to PDAs) great, because they really squeezed the last drop out of the hardware.

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