David,
Since you've mentioned the V and the IIIx and memory, are there plans
for a Vx? If the V had 4M of RAM, I'd buy one this afternoon. While 2M
was an improvement over the standard 1M, I really could use 4M.
-Eric
-----Original Message-----
From: David Fedor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 1999 1:19 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Flash Update of new Palm OS?
>> Are there any plans to allow Palm III users to update to an new OS
3.x that
>> includes all of the optimizations that we see in 3.1? It's really
MUCH
>> faster... good job!
>
>Er, how can you tell, without running 3.1 on a III already? Don't
forget
>the IIIx and V hardware are using the newer EZ processor, which can
(if
>I'm not mistaken) access memory with fewer wait-states...
You're both right. The hardware is slightly faster due to the
processor
and the memory wait-states, but also we've spent some time optimizing
some
of the more frequently used os functions. A software upgrade to a Palm
III
device wouldn't be quite as fast as a Palm IIIx device would be. The
speedup isn't night and day, but it is a nice little "speed bump"
which
frequent users like us would notice.
As to whether/when there might be an update to 3.x for Palm III users,
that
sort of decision isn't in the hands of engineers. Nothing to announce
at
this time.
-David Fedor
Palm Developer Support
