| From: | Aaron Optimizer Digulla |
| Date: | 28 Sep 2000 at 09:19:04 |
| Subject: | Re: AMIOPEN: Classic AmigaOS for PalmPilot!? |
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 :-)
Conclusion: PDAs have completely different goals and needs than
"classic computers" (just as "classic computers" are different
from servers). I hope Amiga has well understood this because it
ultimately means success or failure of Ami. Right now, Ami
is not suited well for desktop (too many PDA-like features)
and not suited at all for servers (no security).