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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc.
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To: P.M.Freedman who wrote (1303)8/23/2000 11:15:41 PM
From: TechieGuy-alt  Read Replies (2) of 6784
 
Intel's XScale should offer a significant boost to future generations of Palm devices

This is an interesting top. A friend of mine and I were discussing this.

Palm obviously needs a new processor (the dragonball is too old tech to hack it for the next 10 years).

But what do you do about the umpteen (>6000) apps already out there and the thousands already in the pipeline?

They are designed (nay- compiled) to run on the dragonball. Any new design (say strong arm based) will most probably be a different architecture (read: instruction set). The same problem of trying to run windows apps on a mac.

Should Palm give up one of the most significant aspect of its platform- the installed base of apps out there?

One possible solution is that the old chip is quite slow. A new Strond arm based solution could emulate the instruction set of the Dragonball processor, thus preserving binary compatability.

Another possibility is a dragonball coprocessor based solution where the old apps are detected and passed onto the dragonball for execution and the new ones are handled by the new processor.

After a few years, they just stop including the co-processor in new models or charge extra for it.

Interesting eh?

TG
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