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It appears my lingo may be inaccurate on how the POS divides up the processes in the background. From the sounds of it, the OS chooses what tasks can be combined and which need to run on a separate thread, hence optimizing the overhead. I confess that I'm more of a desktop programmer than a PDA developer, for it seems my analogy of POS to the old MacOS9 is not exactly correct either. My point was that the current architecture of POS5 seems similar to the old Mac days in that a poorly-programmed application can monopolize all processing and RAM, and then crash the entire device if it glitched. The device is at the mercy of proper programming. Also, any multi-tasking is limited to what the programmer implements.
However, I just looked at my Tungsten|C and remembered those 26 Desk Accessories I have installed under the Zlauncher QuickLaunch feature. For the most part, I can do enough multi-tasking for now.
Once again, thanks for stopping by!
- Jim
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