I've always thought the ARM/StrongARM would be the next logical step. You
could build a totally new kernel (or maybe just use the EPOC kernel) with an
enhanced Palm UI on top of it and still have enough processing power (and
battery life) to create a backwards compatible emulator to run all your
existing applications.
Sounds as though Palm may be heading in the right direction, just as long as
when I open the box of the next generation Palm device and don't find a
repackaged Newton! ;-)
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sabram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 7:16 AM
Subject: Re: End Of Dragonball? Palm Shakeup?
>
>
>Peter Hribar wrote:
>
>> Yes, but the things will become smaller and smaller, and new chips are
>> coming out every day. And if Palm tend to use Dragonball for eternity, or
>> more than 5 years, are... Steve, things are changing all the time. Palm
will
>> also have to change, in future.
>
>Like the way Mac moved to PowerPC, there was an emulator interpreting the
68K instruction set. I'd bet a case of beer that there
>is a 68K emulator running on an ARM machine at least in Alpha as I write
this.
>
>Steve
>
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