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In this previous post I’ve already described how to develop the toolchain for the Kindle, from that it was easy to recompile ELIoT: I was able to maintain the computer version of the VM without modifications (in Android some patches were necessary to accomodate it to the OS), and the standard ping utility worked again; no screenshots, since the execution was performed from SSH, and I will avoid to add the console output (it is basically the same of the previous post, with a couple of debugging lines that my VM has).

Now I’m thinking about outputting something on the screen: on Android the SL4A framework gives Erlang (and thus ELIoT) the ability of writing standard layouts and stuff on screen; on the Kindle you can choose between using their J2ME VM and their Java applet framework (called Kindlet), or the GTK+ on DirectFB from C; I have not explored any of those alternatives, so I have nothing more to say here (yet).

We’ll see…