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Palm OS Emulator Ported to Sharp Zaurus

Posted by timothy on from the slidey-keyboard-plus-graffiti dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Palm Info Center reports that POSE (the Palm Os Emulator) has been ported to the Sharp Zaurus using the QTopia palmtop environment. See the QPOSE homepage for more information." This could make a Zaurus a much more attractive device to those of us with lots of important info on Palm Os devices, but according to other readers' submissions it does require a Palm ROM image to function.

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  1. Cool. but has its restrictions... by sixSecondsOfDefeat · · Score: 0, Troll

    Although efforts to port the Palm OS to a commodore 64 have not yet succeeded. News is out (http://popularscience.com) that they gave ported the PalmOS to a ternery computing system, compliments of Bell Labs. They claim that this could actually "revolutionize the way we think about personal computing devices." The porting to the Sharp device is definitly an interesting read, but it is being sia dthat this will not really take off like they would like it to due to the fact that Palm OS is a Real-time OS, and the Sharp Zaurus was not built with real-time processing in mind. Upgrading their hardware to adapt to real-time needs on a mass-production level would cost Sharp millions of dollars for an investment that they are not even sure about.