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To: lkj who wrote (1315)8/24/2000 9:12:17 AM
From: TechieGuy-alt  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6784
 
>>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.

> Maybe all you need to do is to hit the compile button.


Who's "you" in that statement above? Software Developers? End customers?

TG



To: lkj who wrote (1315)8/30/2000 6:06:08 PM
From: Daniel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 6784
 
>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.

Maybe all you need to do is to hit the compile button.


...and deal with having two different versions of the software all the way from the developer to the end users. (Consider "beaming" an application between different flavors of Palm devices.)

Daniel