Put in that list of "fairly confident of compatibility". Utilizing the serial
port in a non-standard fashion. Also, what about the range and perfomrance of
the IR port?
Steve Patt wrote:
> David wrote:
>
> >I guess you're also fairly confident of compatibility if you're willing to
> >print up literature before testing with the hardware/software :-) Great!
> >
> >Do realize that not all future models will necessarily have all features of
> >the old ones, though... the Palm IIIe device is almost a no-brainer in
> >terms of software compatibility, but don't count on things always being
> >simple like that. (What if it didn't have IR, for example? Not everything
> >will have all the features of previous devices.)
>
> If your app is twiddling registers on the chip, all bets are off. But I'm
> willing to guess (based on past experience) that the overwhelming
> majority of applications will continue to be upwards compatible with
> devices for a long time to come (or until the screen size deviates from
> 160x160, whichever comes first ;-) ). Because the overwhelming majority
> of applications just use standard features of the hardware and standard
> API calls and really have very little to worry about. That's not to say
> the other folks are doing anything wrong, they're just working in a
> different area where such differences become important. But most of us
> are not.
>
> Steve Patt
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