Nah, I was just nihilistic-feeling that day. =)
It seems, however, that from the hardware consensus, that ARM is
the direction that the Palm is going...however, if Motorola were
to develop a more advanced low-power chip, that might keep Palm
and it's licensees on board with them.
-Rus
>-----Original Message-----
>From: DIAMOND JEFF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2000 5:49 PM
>To: Palm Developer Forum
>Subject: Re: StrongARM and OS4
>
>
>
>
>"Nesse, Rustin" wrote:
>
>> What I'd like is if Motorola and Palm could get together and design
>> a solution that could rival the StrongARM. It would be most
>efficient
>> to stick with what works...and Motorola works well. Then,
>they wouldn't
>> have to deal with any emulation, AND the developer community
>could take
>> advantage of the increased processor power with color graphics...
>>
>> Oh well, it'll never happen now.
>>
>
>I'd love to see this too! I don't see any technical reason
>why Motorola
>couldn't use their 0.15 micron process to whip out a 200 MHz 68000 core
>that would require even less power.
>
>Why do you think it will never happen now? Has Palm already signed a
>large deal somewhere?
>
>- Jeff
>
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