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| DATE | 2005-04-10 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Treo
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Ron Guerin wrote:
>
> Ron Guerin wrote:
>>>
>>> I haven't heard this. Rumor or real?
>>> The PalmOS 6 is a BeOS derivative, I know.. but I haven't heard
>>> anything about Linux. That would be something special.
>
>
> Actually, upon re-reading some of this, they clearly state they're not
> going to stop developing the standalone version. However, I wouldn't
> put much faith in them continuing to support two versions, and I
> seriously doubt the Linux version is the one they'll drop. The native
> version is inherently less useful, while being more work to develop. Or
> at least that's what I would think. You on the other hand, actually
> know what you're talking about in this area, so I'm interested in what
> your take on that is.
I'm with you on this. However, I don't actually KNOW what the native
cababilities of the PalmOS6 Cobalt's Protein API is (love those
friggin' codenames). I know PalmOS5, but that's all that's released
on real devices so far. I don't read the manuals for vaporware, generally.
The BeOS base of Cobalt would go a long way toward filling the big gaps
in what we have for a PalmOS Garnet API (PalmOS<=5). I mean BeOS is
a real OS with a POSIX API. The differences between PalmOS Garnet (v5)
and Cobalt (v6) are probably much bigger than the incremental addition
of the Linux API to the BeOS API.
The evolution of Palm so far (basically and approximately):
PalmOS 2.0-5.0 (basically MacOS v2 API +featurecreep)
*HUGE FUNCTIONALITY LEAP OCCURS*
PalmOS 6 Cobalt (BeOS API)
*SMALL PORTING EFFORT OCCURS*
Palm-on-Linux (Linux API)
So they can probably just keep Cobalt supported all over the
place, with or without Linux
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