Author: Timothy J. Frohlick
Date: 19:45:36 10/03/03
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Mike, You and I are amazed at these devices. You must admit that, compared to the PDAs of a few years ago, todays machines are more PC-like in that they integrate and "sync" with PC programs like Excel and Word. In addition, you and I understand that the first PDAs came with 8000 Byte RAM memories and todays units come with up to 1,000,000,000 Byte memories. Calling a pocket computer a PDA is like calling a neurosurgical resident MD a surgeon's assistant. I think that personal digital assistant is rather misleading since PDAs were originally intended for simple personal information manager (PIM) functions such as lists of objects/people. http://www.pdabuyersguide.com/tips/palm_vs_pocketpc.htm It's getting exciting, TJF On October 03, 2003 at 20:13:05, Mike Byrne wrote: >A Dell Axim 400 Mhz (OS Mobile 2003) (overclocked to 472 mhz) hit 107,566 nodes >per second while testing a beta chess program. While I am not privilge to name >the program, it will be a significant update for PDA's that run Mobile 2003 on a >X-scale processor. Early indications are that this is 3.4x faster than the >previously released version running on View Sonic X-Scale 300 Mhz x-scale >running on OS PPC 2002. > >A combination of X-scale optimizations in the program, the Mobile 2003 OS and >the fast performace of an Axim 400 Mhz running at 472Mhz result in this very PC >like performance. (granted, not a fast PC by today's standard - but 100K nps is >nothing to sneeze at coming from a PDA) > >More details to come when permitted. > >Best, > >Michael
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