Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Feb 2004 18:34 UTC
The voice, the man, the... machine. That's George Hoffman for you. According to people who have worked with him (including my husband) he is one of the brightest Be, Inc. engineers ever. These days, George works at PalmSource, Inc. as the Director of Applications and Services. In his free time he sings with an (a cappella) vocal band of 4, Hookslide (check out their .wmv promo video clip)! In this interview we talk about PalmOS 6, aka Cobalt. We discuss the architecture of the OS, its capabilities, its market targets and more. Screenshots of Cobalt are included.
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"where is the shell ?"
1. Download the simulator.
2. Run it.
3. While holding down CONTROL, press RMB to bring up settings menu with "advanced options".
4. Select 640x480 resolution.
5. Watch system reboot with terminal view on right half of display.
6. Type "help" in the shell to get some basic documentation.
Note that this is about half done. It is our own implementation of the POSIX shells standard, with a number of extensions for interacting with our system component model. One big thing missing right now is a better defintion of the directory structure interfaces, so we can mount file systems and other traditional persistent data in the namespace. But you can expect to see these areas addressed in the future...
(There is also a terminal application that give you the same thing in a normal PalmOS app, but I don't know if that got included with the final release of Cobalt.)