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Originally Posted by starrigger
The Dell Axim has an Intel XScale processor. Does that fit under one of those categories?
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The XScale is an Intel StrongARM design.
The underlying chip architecture is designed by ARM, Ltd. in the UK. ARM is a "fabless" semiconductor company. They don't make chips. They design them, and license the design to manufacturers who will make chips based on the design.
Intel licensed the rights to manufacturer chips based on the design. Motorola with their iMX and Texas Instruments with their OMAP processors are also ARM licensees. A lot or consumer electronics uses ARM CPUs. Current Palm devices are ARM based, as are Nokia cell phones, among others. We should be seeing netbooks based on ARM chips soon.
Intel reorganized a couple of years ago and got out of the ARM chip business, selling the StrongARM division to Marvell Semiconductor.
So bottom line, you want the reader for ARM architectures.
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Or, if I have the desktop Reader and install from that, does it already include the necessary PDA code--or does it go online to fetch it when you do the install?
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The latter, I believe. I'd download the distribution file to my desktop, and transfer it to my device from there.
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Dennis