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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc.
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To: David E. Taylor who wrote (1497)8/31/2000 4:18:36 PM
From: Allen  Read Replies (1) of 6784
 
(1) Software emulation would slow things down, though maybe not enough to be noticeable;

When Apple moved the Macintosh from the 68K family to the PowerPC family of processors they maintained backward compatibility by emulating the 68K. The increase in processing power of the PowerPC was such that the emulation hit wasn't really noticeable, at least, until you got the PowerPC native version of the application. I actually have a Windows 98 emulator on my Macintosh and while it's no 500MHz Pentium III (or whatever the Intel name du jour is) it provides reasonable response.

I suspect Palm could manage such a transition as well as Apple did if they wanted to. On the other hand it might make more sense to go to "portable", interpreted environment like Java.
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