My apologies. This is based on something I read in the handhelds newsgroup
sometime ago. I really don't how how did the original writer reach this
conclusion.
David Fedor wrote:
> > Rember that the Palm has serious limitations (like to 12Meg
> >addressing space limit), and Java is the best solution for escaping them
> >(change the OS underneath the KVM and you're done)...
>
> Just to address this little point here... this isn't true. Pointers are 32
> bits, and there's nothing that prevents us from changing the OS and/or
> hardware to let more memory work when the time comes, without apps needing
> to change.
>
> Some internal structures of the OS right now might not support the whole
> addressing range, but that's simply because there's no point... why should
> we bloat the OS to support something that the hardware doesn't? (Sometimes
> it makes sense to take the time upfront, sometimes it doesn't. This code
> was written when there was 128k of memory, total, if you recall!)
>
> When we or our licensees need to stick in more memory, we'll change the
> implementation details. That's the point of APIs which mask the details.
> In the meantime you get an OS which isn't wasting its time and memory.
>
> -David Fedor
> Palm Developer Support
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