Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:09:25 08/04/03
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On August 04, 2003 at 11:23:12, Brian Thomas wrote:
>
>>I'm sorry to step in, but PalmOS programs generally continue to work fine when
>>PalmOS evolves.
>>
>>For example Chess Tiger for PalmOS, designed for PalmOS 4, ran without a single
>>change on PalmOS 5. And PalmOS 5 was not just an evolution of the OS. It was a
>>complete rewrite to let the whole platform run on another PROCESSOR!!!
>
>I admit that is a nice benefit of Palm OS's, but for my purposes, the pocket PC
>is far superior. Not saying this is the case for everyone, just me.
>Compatibility issues are generally rare.
Just look at the history of the companies behind the OSes. Look at how Microsoft
forces everybody to upgrade by producing incompatibilities in their own line of
Windows OSes.
On the other hand just look at the efforts PalmSource is making in retaining as
much compatibility as possible so programs written for PalmOS years ago (and
still in use) keep working in their next version of PalmOS, while building huge
evolutions in the OS itself (for example by moving to another processor
architecture!!!).
The cherry on the cake is that they go as far as contacting the developpers and
telling them how to achieve ascending compatiblity.
BTW I'm curious to learn for what purposes PocketPC might be "far superior".
Christophe
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