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From: Darren Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: palm-dev-forum
To: Palm Developer Forum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, June 08, 2000 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: DragonBall CPUs
>Ok I give up, what is the "DragonBall VZ". I would assume its a faster
>version of the existing types, yes?
>
>TIA
>
>Darren.
>
>Steve Sabram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:13601@palm-dev-forum...
>>
>> Dave Lippincott wrote:
>>
>> > >Does anyone know if palm plan to use the mother of all dragonballs -
>the VZ
>> > >cpu in a product.
>> > Just a guess: I would imagine the VZ would not get used since Palm made
>an
>> > semi-offical announcment on the future use of ARM processors (a much
>faster
>> > line of processors with speeds past 100MHz). But I guess one of the
>> > partners could still use it.
>>
>> Don't bet on that. Palm has had a policy of being very quite and secure
>about future products. Look how well the color unit was
>> kept under wraps. There could be VZ units in production and warehoused
>right now. ARM is a whole new ball of wax. Compiling and
>> porting an OS with so many third party apps is a significant effort.
>>
>> My personal guess is that you will see VZ machines by the end of the year
>and if ARM works out, none of that will hit public product
>> 'til middle of 2001 at the earliest.
>>
>> Steve
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