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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc.
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To: Mang Cheng who wrote (3242)1/2/2001 6:00:14 AM
From: Chinacat  Read Replies (1) of 6784
 
At risk of having jumped into the crossfire, let me offer a two comments/perspectives here:

1. Today, PalmOS only runs on the Dragonball processor from Motorola, which is based on their 68k architecture. Therefore, PalmOS CANNOT be running by itself on the Audrey.

2. Audrey uses an x86 clone from National Semi (or was it AMD?). Hence, the possibility that QNX (which is very x86 centric) was chosen. Then some of PalmOS's synchronization functions were wrapped into the QNX based system, thus providing the connectivity/synchronization features to Palm users.

Finally, I would have to echo lkj's comment that PalmOS would not fly as a COMMERCIALLY viable OS (i.e. Like VxWorks, QNX, or OS-9), although it does very nicely within the limited and heavily specific requirements of the Palm Pilot.

cheers!

chinacat
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