gEDA-user: Alternate Platforms

[rickman <gnuarm.geda@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tablet PCs are going to be taking off big time over the next year or 
two.  This is the ideal platform that I have wanted for a long time.  
But for now at least, they don't run Windows or even Linux.  They run 
the Android OS on ARM processors.  I don't really know how closely the 
UI maps to a standard mouse controlled application.  But I would expect 
a tablet PC could be pretty useful for layout.

Is this something that would be easy to port to?  Anyone know much about 
developing for table PCs?

I'm on a mail list from an outfit that forecasts memory production and 
usage and they always seem to be talking about future demand being 
impacted big time by table sales, both NAND flash and DRAM.  I hope they 
can turn these things into useful tools that are extremely portable 
(much better than my 17" boat anchor laptop) and run a long time off of 
batteries.

As an aside, I was working at a Panera Bread store tonight and planned 
to head home around 8 PM, well before the place closed.  With a snow 
storm coming on quickly the place seemed to empty out pretty early, but 
with four wheel drive I figured I had nothing to worry about.  When I 
got up to get my last cup of coffee to go all the urns were gone!  I 
looked around and no one was behind the counters!  I called out a couple 
of times and no one could hear me!  Finally one of the bakers came out 
and said they had closed the place long ago!  Eventually a manager 
showed up and apologized, but it was so weird being there with the place 
closed and no one bothered to say anything to me!  They did make a latte 
for me since there was no coffee.  Very strange.

BTW, is Android multitasking or is it single tasking like the iPad OS?

Rick


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