> But if you're emulating system calls through another OS
But existing applications are 68k machine code, not just system calls. You need
an emulation layer. I'm not complaining about it, it's just going to have to be
that way.
I agree, and that's why I'm pretty sure they aren't going to try it.
Call me cynical, but to me cross-platform always equals compromise. I'd rather
have a OS (and kernel) targeted specifically for mobile devices.
Again, I agree. But don't compare Windows to the Linux kernel! They are
fundamentally different. Windows has been developed in such a way that the
GUI cannot be separated from the rest of the system.
That's not my point. The problem is that desktop/server thinking and approaches
get carried over to the mobile device space. MS have (nearly) always written
completely new code for their various mobile device OSes (and there have been a
lot of them!), but they have historically tended to think of the devices as
little laptops. So besides the big things like having poor performance and crap
battery lives and so on, they've done small things wrong, like having buttons
with shadows wasting pixels because that's what the desktop OS looked like at
the time.
Probably because I've never seen Codewarrior
I wasn't a big fan of that IDE either :-) But it seemed more stable and easier
to install, at least.
As long as I have
all my Unix text processing and development utils, I see absolutely
no need for any IDE. I've tried using a few, but they just slow me
down. Ok, so I'm not a typical Palm OS programmer!
Not a typical programmer of any kind :-) Modern IDEs have a lot of advantages
over old-fashioned command line systems, and the fact is that most programmers
prefer having those advantages. They might be prepared to work with sub-standard
tools when doing hobbyist stuff, but in their working lives it's a different story.
if the only reason I can put up with it is that I'm an expert Unix
user/programmer, then things are really bad. ;-)
:-)
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
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Tabdee Ltd http://www.tabdee.ltd.uk
TurboSync - Connecting Delphi to your Palm
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