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[News] Running Linux on a wrist watch?ANN.lu
Posted on 08-Aug-2000 16:34 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä10 comments
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IBM are making Dick Tracy's watch reality. According to a story on CNET, IBM have created a prototype watch that is built around an ARM-based processor and has 8Mb of memory. It's running the Linux operating system. Maybe something like this could even be practical with Tao's technology (or QNX's, as the article suggests)?

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