Re: [amsat-bb] Re: Linux tracking software for Linux

[Margaret Leber <maggie@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 07 December 2001 14:29, Mike W4LNA wrote:

> I have Palm and Pocketsat, but can't imagine just how slow Java would
> be on such an underpowered device.

A Palm is not particularly underpowered, and the performance of the 
current J2ME implementation might surpise you. 

I run SatTrack against a list of 40 some satellites on a 900MHz PII, 
and it literally doesn't even notice the CPU load. I can't imagine that 
tracking *one* sat at a time on a Dragonball at 20 or 30 MHz--even in 
Java--is that big a deal.  

 73 de Maggie K3XS

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