On Jul 18, 2007, at 6:26 AM, Michael Rigby-Jones wrote: > If we were still happy to run DOS/CPM on 8086 CPUs running at 4.77MHz, > then undoubtedly a modern implementation could be run from a few > pen cells. When I bought my first palmtop (a Palm 3xe, dragonball processor 8M memory plus OS and apps in ROM), I was struck by it's similarity (cpu & memory) to the original 1984 Macintosh... BillW -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist