what this would ideally be is something implememted in forth rather than java... the compiled f-code is processor independant, and executes substantially faster than java (execution is threaded, rather than interpreted, like RPL)... this is the way that PCI cards with Open Firmware boot ROMs (built around Forth) can be used without OS-specific drivers on SPARC, PPC, and whatever other architectures have OF implemented on them...
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20 Years of UI research at Apple is hard to combat but those Eazel folks might surprise us all.
well, given how Andy Hertzfeld is a co-founder of the whole eazel thing, i don't know if they'd be trying to "combat" apple's UI...
the white paper on their site talks of "any-to-any" synchronisation, but the only listed options are
- Synchronize networked data with any mobile device
- Synchronize a mobile device with any networked data
what happened to- Synchronize a mobile device with a mobile device
it'd be nice to be able to synch the phone numbers in my mobile with the addressbook in my Palk without having to go through a desktop system...what this would ideally be is something implememted in forth rather than java... the compiled f-code is processor independant, and executes substantially faster than java (execution is threaded, rather than interpreted, like RPL)... this is the way that PCI cards with Open Firmware boot ROMs (built around Forth) can be used without OS-specific drivers on SPARC, PPC, and whatever other architectures have OF implemented on them...
problem is it's still damn fsckin' slow...
just a thought - have you ever used speed??