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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:43:28 +0200 (GMT+0200)
From: Alan Barrett <apb@iafrica.com>
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de>
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On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Serious, I don't know what exactly a Psion is, and why one would run
> NetBSD on, besides coolness. Or better, what one *can* run. What CPU
> (speed) does it have, does it have a harddisk or something similar?

http://www.psion.com/series5/s5spec.html

ARM7100 CPU, 18.432MHz
6MB ROM with OS and applications (diary, address book, notepad,
     spreadsheet, some others)
4MB or 8MB RAM (battery backed) for data and add-on applications
     (including email and web, unless they have recently moved those
     to the ROM)
slot for 10MB flash memory expansion
640x240 pixel greyscale LCD display, touch sensitive
fairly decent keyboard (considering its size)
infrared port
serial port

--apb (Alan Barrett)