PalmOS no more? :(

[Roger Merchberger]

Rumor has it that Jules Richardson may have mentioned these words:

>Out of interest (here I go OT *again*), presumably MS OS software is 
>finding its way into various handheld devices these days. How good is it? 
>MS always struck me as a company who were incapable of thinking on a 
>small, efficient scale so it'd be interesting to hear how well they are 
>coping...

At the risk of 1) dragging this weird topic back *on* topic, and 2) pizzing 
off people by being pro-M$[1] -- M$ has made several useful minimalistic 
OSs - just look at the Tandy 100/102/200, M$'s HH/OS in the Tandy 600, and 
other examples out there in classicland...

And it's not *all* M$'s fault, either! I feel that XP would be about 1/2 
size, if it wasn't for all the dancing dogs & wizards that those of us who 
can actually run a computer don't need - they put it in there for all the 
lusers...

Granted, M$ hasn't considered OS efficiency in a long, long time... but 
they used to be able to do quite a bit in 32K or less.

Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger

[1] and yet, I have a really, *really* sour taste in my mouth after the 
multi-attempt, multi-hour legal WinXP activation SNAFU I just had earlier 
today - my first install - and they say it's easier than Linux... Sheesh!

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Roger "Merch" Merchberger  --  SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
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