David Jones wrote: > 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.
You're a few years behind in models.
