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To: sam who wrote (22907)	10/19/1998 12:39:00 PM
From: Bernhard Michaelis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 45548

The windows version of PalmPilot is now at Pilot Desktop 3.0. It is written with mac software: (CodeWarrior Development tools). The palm pilots have a plug-in translator (called conduit) that connects Pilot data with data back on the host computer. Dozens of Windows programs can take advantage of conduits to send data to and from the PalmPilot. Now for the Mac side: 3Com bought the orphaned Claris organizer and turned it into the new standard for the Palm Pilot for the Mac: palm Organizer desktop.More: The program with the most connection potential is probably Eudora planner, Qualcomms integrated and redesigned follow up to NowContact and Nowup to Date. IMHO this soon won't be just a cult thing anymore: Instead of carrying around a laptop it makes so much more sense just to connect with a handheld device. This is clearly the future. Meanwhile you can d/l novels into your palmpilot and read while on an airplane. I got most of the above information from Macworld, i'm doing some research of my own, since I'd like to buy a Palmpilot - and have been thinking for a while: the company who makes this pilot definitely is worth looking into - plampilot might be still a side endeavour for COMS now, but it can get big, if they play it right.. Bernhard

To: sam who wrote (22907)	10/19/1998 3:41:00 PM
From: joe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 45548

Sam, Here's a better link to a Palm Pilot book and software developer's software guide. palmpilot.oreilly.com I've got to go back and review what the "open software" means exactly. I know that even though Microsoft allows its Win98 source code available to the public, there aren't many hackers that will write usefull code for it the way they do for Linux and the Palm Pilot. Only, professional programmers write for the Win98. I'm assuming that Palm Pilot OS has a similar structure to the LINUX OS as to how people can handle the code. Software developers are motivated to write all kinds of programs for these two OSs just as a hobby. It's good because there's a lot more creativity, and lots of people can test the OS and get rid of the bugs quicker. That's one of the problems with Win98. Since only the creaters of it (MSFT) handle it, it's hard to find all the bugs...and MSFT has a reputation for coming out with buggy software.