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Although I agree with most of the other comments, that flashy features like MP3, Color, etc. only increase price/size/weight and decrease battery-lifetime, while not providing any productivity or usability benefits, not significantly enhancing the base unit can sometimes affect continued market success.
But according to a recent c't article, Palm has already announced that they're going to do a re-design soon/now...
Yes that file was quite influential, I think. It made me hook up a nice 8 bar LED to my parallel port. I even hacked together a kernel module, and some interesting driver software.
Hmmm, I should get that back to working order (I guess the kernel module will need some reworking though. It was written on a 1.2 kernel I think;)
And I still think that >$50 for those LCD modules is a bit steep. I think I'll have a look at our local electronic store, and see if I can't find anything way cheaper...
The producers of QNX had (has?) a demo disk for this micro-kernel OS that included the OS, their GUI, all the required networking stuff and a browser that wasn't totally bad on one floppy.
But with XML, CSS, DOM and Java being required nowadays (or in the near future at least), browsers will probably just get bigger...
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Although I agree with most of the other comments, that flashy features like MP3, Color, etc. only increase price/size/weight and decrease battery-lifetime, while not providing any productivity or usability benefits, not significantly enhancing the base unit can sometimes affect continued market success.
But according to a recent c't article, Palm has already announced that they're going to do a re-design soon/now...
Regs, Pierre.
Yes that file was quite influential, I think. It made me hook up a nice 8 bar LED to my parallel port. I even hacked together a kernel module, and some interesting driver software.
;)
Hmmm, I should get that back to working order (I guess the kernel module will need some reworking though. It was written on a 1.2 kernel I think
And I still think that >$50 for those LCD modules is a bit steep. I think I'll have a look at our local electronic store, and see if I can't find anything way cheaper...
Regs, Pierre.
The producers of QNX had (has?) a demo disk for this micro-kernel OS that included the OS, their GUI, all the required networking stuff and a browser that wasn't totally bad on one floppy.
But with XML, CSS, DOM and Java being required nowadays (or in the near future at least), browsers will probably just get bigger...
Segfault, which was threatened by the same company it seems, has been shut down, too. So if it's an April fool's joke, it's quite an elaborate one.
:-((
And if it isn't, I know that someone is now really annoyed, and that's me, and maybe 100.000 other fans of the sites.