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Originally Posted by e-enker
Dennis, if I got that right then what you were saying was that access run palm os seperately from linux, and the linux is used to properly display the palm applications?
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Not exactly. Palm OS is run as a virtual machine. Essentially, Palm OS is a
program running under Linux.
Palm OS communicates with Linux to do things like screen display.
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Does that only work for a particular linux, or would this really work for the iliad too?
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According to one of the Access reps, ALP is "Linux agnostic". The have a version of Linux for ARM based devices they got when they bought China Mobile Solutions that they used for development, but the rep said one of their engineers got it up on another ARM Linux port in a day.
But note that Palm OS Garnet is built for devices running ARM processors, so while it might be possible to get it running on other ARM devices, it
couldn't be brought up on devices running Intel or other processors. It's not Linux specific, but it
is CPU specific.
[quote]And can one purchase that Access solution somewhere, or is it open source?[/quopte]
No and no. It is not open source, and Access doesn't sell it to consumers. They license it to manufacturers who want to use it in their devices.
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About the pdas...so when you turn off the backlight then you still have enough contrast to use the pda just as normal? What pda do you have?
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I have a Tapwave Zodiac 2. It's a Palm OS 5.27 device with a 320x480 color screen. Tapwave was trying to create a device that was a Palm OS PDA and a handheld gaming device, so it has things like an ATI graphics chip with 2D acceleration and 8MB of graphics RAM, 128MB of RAM, and Yamaha stereo sound. Tapwave went belly up in July 2005, but the devices still work...
The backlight on the Zodiac can be turned off completely, which makes it quite readable outdoors. Whether you can do that with a Palm OS PDA depends on the device. I couldn't do it on my previous Palm Tungsten E. (It turns out there was a "hack" that would let me do it, but I didn't discover it till after the E was retired for failing hardware.)
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Can you directly exchange data between the pda and the iliad, or would you have to save, for example, a webpage on a card in the pda first and then use that card to view the page on the iliad?
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I don't have an iLiad, so I can't say for sure. My device supports Palm Hotsync, Bluetooth, and (with an SD Wifi card) Wifi, and has two SD card slots. My guess is that getting data between iLiad and PDA would require saving to a card on one device and putting the card in the other.
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Dennis