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To: quidditch who wrote (31134)	5/27/1999 1:24:00 AM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

steven, Your posts are well received, (can't speak for Caxton),Your "Bullseye" is within reach. All The Best, Mp

To: quidditch who wrote (31134)	5/27/1999 3:14:00 AM
From: Robert	Respond to of 152472

I had thought that the pdq and Palm VII were supposed to be married and on display in Q-2 or Q-3. Steven, Never knew they were dating. In fact I believe they can be considered competing products (to some degree). As you are aware, the pDQ is an integrated Palm Pilot, CDMA Handset. The Palm VII is a wireless data enabled Pilot (half the rate of CDPD) and does not support voice. I believe it uses MOT's Flex 2-way paging network (I could be wrong here). Robert.

To: quidditch who wrote (31134)	5/27/1999 4:23:00 PM
From: w molloy	Respond to of 152472

Straight and Steve M - CE vs Symbian Embedded OS's and more traditional 'system' OS have been converging over the last couple of years. Embedded OS's are being beefed up with IP, TCP, UDP etc to handle the needs of wirless data while 'system' OS's (which include all this stuff, and a substantial graphical User Interface - GUI)are being stripped down to fit in a limited memory footprint. CE is derived from a 'system' OS. Wind Rivers OS is a good example from the embedded perspective. Symbian, I understand was designed from the ground up, with an efficient GUI implementation tailored for PALM type devices. CE claims to do this, but suffers from memory bloat. As far as I know, there is no technical reason why QCOM should be precluded from the Symbian clutch. I would discount any Fortress Europe mentality here. Psion would love to turn Symbian into the ARM of operating systems. If you are interested check out MSFT, Psion and WindRiver web sites for details.