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Subject: Re: Which is strongest for handheld? and will Tiger and others do for ipac?

Author: Christophe Theron

Date: 12:56:26 03/31/02

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On March 31, 2002 at 12:22:05, stuart taylor wrote:

>On March 31, 2002 at 10:48:17, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On March 31, 2002 at 08:08:42, Bert van den Akker wrote:
>>
>>>On March 30, 2002 at 22:02:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 30, 2002 at 19:21:01, stuart taylor wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>i.e which is the strongest program out now for any handheld, be it palm
>>>>>compatable, or ipac?
>>>>>
>>>>> And, how much stronger ought ipac be if a Palm program would be written for it,
>>>>>and will Christophe, others be writing for it and when?
>>>>>S.Taylor
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>As Jorge has pointed out, the iPaq will soon have absolutely no speed advantage
>>>>over the Palms.
>>>>
>>>>This fall the first ARM-based Palms, running at 200MHz and much more, are going
>>>>to appear.
>>>>
>>>>They will be able to run all the current Palm applications. Note that
>>>>applications will have to be recompiled to benefit from the higher speed, but
>>>>Chess Tiger for Palm will be recompiled as soon as I get my hands on one of
>>>>these wonderful new Palms.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>    Christophe
>>>
>>>
>>>Will there be a version of the Tiger program for the Pocket PC?
>>>
>>>BvdA
>>
>>
>>
>>Yes.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Christophe
>
>Christophe,
>When approx?


This year.



>And
>Why?  (if there will be no speed advantage, and most people like Palms?)
>Will there be ANY advantage?


I think there will be no advantage for the customer over ARM-based Palms.



    Christophe



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