They could probably glob 'em all together into one runtime which would detect your device on the fly but then you'd have a program 4x the size it needs to be to get the job done. The PPC's have fairly similar screen/processor configs so they don't have this issue.
Wrong. Do you know anything about PPC or are you talking out your ass? They have the exact same issue. ARM, MIPS, SH3? Granted all PPC2002 and 2003 devices are ARM processors, there are still a lot of old ones out there.
Wrong. Do you know anything about PPC or are you talking out your ass? They have the exact same issue. ARM, MIPS, SH3? Granted all PPC2002 and 2003 devices are ARM processors, there are still a lot of old ones out there.
Um, did my post require such a strongly worded response regardless of how accurate it may have been regarding PPCs?
Wrong. Do you know anything about PPC or are you talking out your ass? They have the exact same issue. ARM, MIPS, SH3? Granted all PPC2002 and 2003 devices are ARM processors, there are still a lot of old ones out there.
I think the point Bancho was trying to make was that MS saw this as a problem and actually fixed it, whereas Pa1m0ne *just* released new models which need different programs based on screen size. So PalmOS devices will having the same problems that PPC users had back before PPC2002.
Pa1m0ne also really likes to support legacy devices (you can run PalmOS 4 on one of the original Pilots, with the right upgrades), and they have a great deal of influence in PalmSource's OS development, so Palm users are going to be saddled with monochrome support for a long time.
You know, I tried to change my username when I became a moderator to try and clear everything up, but people told me to switch it back. I'm really on the verge of changing it to something else again.
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Originally posted by Bancho
They could probably glob 'em all together into one runtime which would detect your device on the fly but then you'd have a program 4x the size it needs to be to get the job done. The PPC's have fairly similar screen/processor configs so they don't have this issue.
Wrong. Do you know anything about PPC or are you talking out your ass? They have the exact same issue. ARM, MIPS, SH3? Granted all PPC2002 and 2003 devices are ARM processors, there are still a lot of old ones out there.
Originally posted by torifile
Wrong. Do you know anything about PPC or are you talking out your ass? They have the exact same issue. ARM, MIPS, SH3? Granted all PPC2002 and 2003 devices are ARM processors, there are still a lot of old ones out there.
Um, did my post require such a strongly worded response regardless of how accurate it may have been regarding PPCs?
Originally posted by torifile
Wrong. Do you know anything about PPC or are you talking out your ass? They have the exact same issue. ARM, MIPS, SH3? Granted all PPC2002 and 2003 devices are ARM processors, there are still a lot of old ones out there.
I think the point Bancho was trying to make was that MS saw this as a problem and actually fixed it, whereas Pa1m0ne *just* released new models which need different programs based on screen size. So PalmOS devices will having the same problems that PPC users had back before PPC2002.
Pa1m0ne also really likes to support legacy devices (you can run PalmOS 4 on one of the original Pilots, with the right upgrades), and they have a great deal of influence in PalmSource's OS development, so Palm users are going to be saddled with monochrome support for a long time.