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Author: Alan Dayley
Date:  
Subject: IBM stuffs Linux into Dick Tracy's watch
To prove it could be done, Big Blue has
developed a prototype wristwatch
communicator running on Linux.

By Reuters
August 7, 2000 6:50 AM PT

NEW YORK -- IBM said on Monday that researchers
are running the Linux operating system on a
prototype wristwatch device, in a research test
designed to show that Linux can be used as the
basic software on the smallest devices.

Full article: http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2612341,00.html

Alan

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