lou_dias wrote:
So much for the theory that the trolls in my "potential ppc Amiga real cheap" thread that you couldn't run a browser with less than 128MB and a hard drive. Despite the fact that I had IE running on WinCE devices with only 32MB.
Who said this? My Sony Ericsson T637 used Opera Mini and had it's own fairly functional browser on no hard drive and around 3.5MB RAM. I've used Palms (with their crappy Blazer browser) with about the same or less. My new K790a has NetFront which does VERY well.
Anyway. I wonder if it's not so much the browser software and CPU horse-power causing limitations or the OS. I'm having a hard time believing that we can't at least get a modern mini-browser ported over to the Amiga. With all of the OSS development on software and various libraries, it is almost difficult to understand why we do not see more for the Amiga.
Almost... first off, Linux and GPL/OSS development has moved a lot from being spare-time things to commercial or otherwise supported with some potential for real income (note that I did not say ALL development has moved in this direction.) Work for the Amiga has little potential for big profit returns and is mostly a labor of love.
(And before someone starts riding me about "well, then why don't you write your own $PROGRAM," (a standard Linux Elitist response, BTW,) the gf has bought me Cubic for Christmas, and I already own SAS/C. Who knows... I might be able to squeeze out some stuff over the next 12 months.
