At 05:46 PM 9/13/2005, you wrote:
Excuse me? "It's used for OS development at PalmSource". My mistake then, because I thought it had been released as a tool for Palm OS developers. It's one thing to replace the robust, well built and useful emulator with a simple simulator - cheap, but that's life. It's something else to respond to complaints by suggesting that it's only an internal tool.
I wasn't trying to excuse it, just present the reality that's there. The primary purpose for the simulators at was always supporting internal developers and licensees. Supporting external developers was a secondary role for the tool, but there was little effort put into making the simulators a robust debugging environment for someone who couldn't build the simulators from source.
PalmSource did make a lot of effort into getting ARM emulators working, but there were performance problems, and there was also the issue of the PalmSource reference hardware not actually being identical to any of the devices that licensees would ship. If you look at the Janerio tool that's in the PalmSource Inside Track program, you'll see that it only emulates one particular Intel reference board, and it also doesn't have all of the hooks into the OS that the old POSE had.
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