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Details Of Palm OS 6 - 'Cobalt'

Posted by timothy on from the that's-a-big-palm-you've-got dept.

Splezunk writes "Looks like Palm has finally released some details on Palm OS 6 a k a 'Cobalt'. Palminfocenter has more on it, and I have just noticed that there are now screenshots. Highlights are a 32,000x32,000 screen support, BeOS like multitasking and threading. Currently 256MB memory, but this will be upgraded in time."

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  1. Re:32,000x32,000? by craXORjack · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Can that be a misprint? If we assume that in this mode we would have at least 4 shades of gray for colordepth, then the memory needed just to hold the state of the currently display screen is: 32000x32000x2 bits or 256MB which is given as the maximum amount of ram in the thing. On the other hand, maybe what that really means is that they will be able to multipurpose RAM as video RAM the way the macintoshes did and no shortsighted barriers like 640k on a PC.

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