Re: Dos on OmniGo

William Ofosu-Amaah (XI6W-OFSA@asahi-net.or.jp)
Sat, 8 Jun 1996 13:55:30 +0900

At 08:15 PM 6/7/96 -0500, Man F Wong wrote:
>This is all probably a waste of effort because why would HP permit a
> breach
>of their license agreement and effectively nullify or significantly limit
>whatever relevant software/firmware/end-product patent or copyright they
>have on the Ogo and its BIOS.

I think it is still worth a try. Wouldn't you love to
have such a driver?
And like Steve Mann said: "you never know unless you ask."

> Furthermore, this could potentially have an
>adverse effect on the LX palmtops' market share. Afterall, the HP200LX
>costs $500 @ 1MB and hosts a 186 chip that's 1/2 the speed(!!) of the one
>in the Ogo.

I personally don't think it would affect the 200LX very much. The
OGO has a non standard screen so there are a lot of DOS programs
currently used on the 200LX which the OGO wouldn't be able to
display/run properly if at all.
If you look at the japanese fella's page, he is running a
video file viewer EVA.EXE and according to the japanese text,
he is unable to use any key input and the display positions are
out of place. I think very few people needing to run DOS apps
would prefer the OG over the 200LX for reasons like the above.

>Probably, the only way to go might be to officially acquire the specs,
> etc.
>from the BIOS maker and Daylight (the mini-DOS provider) and write a text
>display driver for Ogo's DOS from scratch. Anybody up to the task? <g>

This is also not a bad approach to follow.

William