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Well that's interesting. The Dragonball is a 68k-derived microcontroller that was also used in early Palm devices. I wonder if using it in the 3000 influenced their decision to build the Dana as a Palm machine?this particular model uses a Motorolla DragonBall EZ MC68EZ328PU16V
So, there's at least one useful, open-source OS that could conceivably be ported to your device.Motorola/Freescale Semiconductor's DragonBall, or MC68328, is a microcontroller based on the 68000 core, implemented as an all-in-one low-power system for handheld computer use. It is supported by μClinux.
(I have this vague memory that someone got an early Mac system running on a Palm Pilot, but don't quote me on that - it may have been a pipe dream)
This anecdote claims the original AS was developed by Apple employees:
But first, Barrus and Kothari had to move from prototype to production. And they had to figure out what rights, if any, their employer Apple was going to claim to the idea.
But Apple, it seemed, viewed the machine as a peripheral / While Barrus and Kothari’s prototype wasn’t really a computer, it wasn’t a dumb keyboard either. Apple eventually decided that it wasn’t interested in producing the device – “people didn’t really get it” / and the company gave the two engineers a release to work on their idea. (Other Apple engineers helped with designing the plastics.)