From: "otherone001" <otherone001@...>
Jun 22, 2004
I just aquired a mailstation with the following markings:
Body color: black
Markings: CIDCO MODEL DET1
Function-Shift-T-(Power ON) brings up Diagnostic Main Menu
Version: 2.55Y
After I quit the diagnostic menu I get a "Reset System Data" menu.
After I reset all of the systems data I can create a new user.
All fields are blank including the POP3/SMTP lines.
My questions are:
Can I use this to call into my home linux server and get my mail that
way. Also, has anyone created a small linux to run on the mailstation
and become a small terminal, etc...?
Terry Graham
From: "John R. Hogerhuis" <jhoger@...>
Jun 22, 2004
Hello Terry,
On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:37, otherone001 wrote:
All of this is covered on linux-hacker.net .
Yes. See linux-hacker.net in the mailstation section
No. The effort on this list is to reverse engineer the device and flash
a new image to it such that some other OS could eventually be run.
Linux will not run on a Z80. No MMU, virtual memory, etc. uCLinux,
maybe. A better OS for this device is CP/M, which makes a perfectly good
terminal, word processor, and can run various compilers (an example of a
nice CP/M laptop is the Amstrad NC100 or NC200 running ZCN). We're
talking an 8-bit CPU here. The best thing to do is either have no OS, or
an OS that was optimized for 8-bit devices and their constraints.