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To: lkj who wrote (1636)	9/9/2000 11:14:14 PM
From: Alski	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Impossible seems a little strong? Could not a StrongArm run an emulator to maintain binary compatibility? And, to improve battery life they might not run it a full speed; CMOS consumes more power the faster you clock it. But, you are right, m100 is NOT a StrongArm, it's a 16MHz Dragonball, according to Palm anyway. ZDNet blew that one. Maybe you can't believe everything you read. palmos.com FWIW...Alski

To: lkj who wrote (1636)	9/9/2000 11:16:32 PM
From: lkj	Respond to of 6784

Just checked out the DragonBall a little bit on the Motorola web site. I didn't know that at 33MHz, the DragonBall only provides 5.5MIPS of processing power. Wow! This tells you even more about how little processing power the Palm OS requires, and how little overhead it causes. PocketPC will choke on 5 MIPS. Khan