As a follow-up--and as if on cue--it's now official that OS6 will be supporting multithreading (this just in from David Fedor in the PalmSource Developer Newsletter):
"In particular, Palm OS 6 has significant new capabilities arising from a new memory architecture. This enables a protected memory system where multiple processes running simultaneously have separate "dynamic" heaps and which share public storage heaps. These are accessed with the existing Data Mgr APIs as well as a new extended database API which is based on schema and supports access rules for security and extensibility. The security and stability benefits of this system, as well as the removed limitations, allow a huge step forward for applications, background processing, security-conscious solutions, and system services. Developer-accessible multithreading will enable a new category of communications solutions which we're very excited about." They're still say "Fall" for the release of OS6. David -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/
