N. Saliba: Friend in Cell phone Mfgr. new products development department. So far his company not expected to use Geoworks operating system, but things can change. I think they are looking at a version of Windows CE. Knowing Microsoft's history, the rf environment is very different than normal networks. Serious and sophisticated communication failure and recovery protocols are absolutely necessary. Your communication device can't "lock up". All system states need to be tested, error recovery carefully designed and verified, software watchdog timers, etc. etc. It requires a very different mind set to design these kinds of systems.
I was part of a team that designed, built, manufactured, and sold the first digital paging/message system back in 1979. By dialing up our network, on a dumb terminal, you could create a message for a person, to be sent from SF to New York or LA and the individual could read it on his shirt pocket receiver immediately. We would even receive messages on flights from SF out into Nevada. There is tremendous value in an operating system that can work reliably in the RF environment.
If Geoworks has such a system, it could take over the small device, wireless internet information transfer. Bill
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