| From: | Staf Verhaegen |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 09:35:51 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Classic AmigaOS for PalmPilot!? |
Aaron Optimizer Digulla wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 09:05:55AM +0200, Michiel Erasmus wrote:
>
> > I have an Palm Pilot III running PalmOS, not my favourite but its working
> > OK. I needed a PDA and decided to buy a palm becos of the hype around it.
> > Actually its not that good!
> >
> > Now, it will be nice if my Palm was running AmigaOS, becos the advances in
> > memory and other stuff sure can make that possible?
>
> I've yet to see a "big" OS being *useful* on a PDA. To understand what
> I mean, have a look at PDAs running WinCE. The problem is that apps
> for desktops expect large amounts of screen space, a keyboard and a
> mouse. A stylus can replace the mouse but text input is a pain on a
> PDA. Therefore, you must have special apps for the PDA. And then,
> you have special needs in terms of memory consumption, power consumption
> and finally, you really don't want to wait the app to start :-)
Actually I neither want to wait on a desktop. I still don't see why we should
wait for an application to start. This is of course seen from a user stand
point. Hope AMIE will help me out on this.
Staf.
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