The Openmoko Wikireader twitter stream had a link off to the github repository at http://github.com/wikireader.
Poking around showed some interesting things:
- The device is quite simple. No operating system, only the main application running directly on the hardware
- The CPU is a Epson S1C33E07 (pdf) which is part of the S1C33 family
- There’s a version of Forth for the device written by Christopher Hall
- The closest thing to a kernel is a library called ‘mahatma’
- Python is their glue language of choice. Yay
- The Wikipedia image is compressed using lzma
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