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Technology Stocks : PALM - The rebirth of Palm Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (3242)	1/1/2001 11:49:00 PM
From: Alski	Respond to of 6784

Well, I don't know if they've posted the info you're looking for but did you see the "Meet Audrey" link on 3Com's home page? It links you to the Ergo web site. ergo.3com.com Hardly a low profile, but I doubt you'll find much techical info since they're "Delivering on the promise of providing radical simplicity" and "The Audrey experience allows consumers to spend less time with technology", etc. FWIW...Alski

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (3242)	1/2/2001 2:21:18 AM
From: lkj	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6784

Hi Mang, There is no need for me to convince anyone that the Palm OS is not meant and is not capable of going after the STB market. From just about every technical perspective, the Palm OS does NOT qualify to be an OS. Micrsoft has been right in listing out all of the short-comings in the Palm OS. Comparing the Palm OS to Win CE is like comparing DOS to OS/2. Palm OS is still in its dark ages. I am going to let this topic rest because if you look into any commercial OS, the Palm OS simply looks silly. Regards, Khan P.S. Technical achievement has no correlation to commercial success. DOS is the best example.

To: Mang Cheng who wrote (3242)	1/2/2001 6:00:14 AM
From: Chinacat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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