Author: Mark Rawlings
Date: 06:21:28 06/08/02
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I think Martin may have been looking more for popularity of the OS, rather than which would result in a stronger program. Although a program would not be as strong on either OS compared to Windows on the PC, I'd bet he could write a Palm-based checkers program that would beat 99%+ of the public! Mark On June 08, 2002 at 01:20:22, Steve Maughan wrote: >Martin, > >I imagine that currently you'll probably be stuck with the Pocket PC as the >current Palm OS is severly limited in resource for (moderatly) memory hungry >programs such as Cake. In the next six months Palm will release OS 5 which will >be suitable for you app. > >Regarding popularity - Palm has a worldwide lead. I've had both (Palm III, iPAQ >and Palm m515) and I prefer the Palm on the basis of useability, size, weight >and battery life, although the Pocket PC does have a faster processor (until OS >5) and hence plays stronger Chess / Checkers. > >Just my opinion, > >Steve
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