On Tuesday 15 May 2007 11:35, sapphirebrand2000 wrote: > --- In [email protected], "Graham Toal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Palms are not big devices, in any sense. > > The original Maven ran on a Mac with 1 MB of RAM, and the original > Tyler ran on a PC with 512 KB. Size is not a limitation at all. > > Even today, you can produce genuinely cutting edge programs in only a > few megabytes.
Yes, but Palms are not big devices, in any sense. The typical entry level device that a student Scrabbler buys on EBay might pack only 32K. Seriously. Think small. Think VERY small. The other problem is power consumption: the typical Palm will exhaust its battery in minutes if it performs any compute intensive task. And the processor is pretty limited. Even my 200MHz Clie takes over 2 seconds to estimate a new performance rating based on 12 tournament games if it uses double-precision floating-point arithmwtic. My rating calculator uses lots of lookup tables and 16-bit fixed point for just this reason. We're not talking Vic-20 yet, but it's close.
