PalmOS no more? :(

[John Boffemmyer IV]

Sridhar: I could always sell you my incredibly flawed and limited 
Palm m130 with partially defective color display (Palm had a recall 
on them that really didn't give you a working m130 back without 
paying out the ass for the value of 2 of them... and it would still 
have the same somewhat flawed display of 50-something thousand colors 
instead of the proper 64k, amazing what those marketing idiots did). 
Sorry, had to have a laugh. Also, there used to be a joke/image out 
there about M$: The next new future: "Windows CE_Me_NT: dumb as a 
brick and goes about as fast."

My younger brother got bored one day and did research on reducing the 
size of Win98 (he does naughty things like program and reverse 
engineer when he gets bored). He found that if you remove a good 
chink of the B.S. in Win98SE, you could have a working graphical OS 
in the footprint of about 48MB, full installation. Obviously, after 
he tinkered with the research and all, the drive was immediately 
blanked entirely for legality sake, etc. Just shows how much garbage 
there really is in there if the newer XP takes about what- 1GB for 
fully loaded installation? It probably only truly needs (estimating 
fairly) about 256MB for something that much more complex and graphical.

Final thing: looking online for replacement Palm batteries confirms 
the poor planning and intent on selling those damned things. 
$30-40.00 US plus shipping for a replacement m130 battery via 3rd 
party (Palm doesn't even offer it and their tech-help confirmed 
that)! For a unit only 3-4 years old, that is about double what the 
unit goes for used, in good to excellent condition, on ebay.

-John

At 03:01 PM 9/27/2005, you wrote:

>Zane H. Healy wrote:
>>>http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/ptech/09/27/palm.microsoft.ap/index.html
>>
>>I've got to admit, this concerns me.  I've got software that requires
>>PalmOS, and I don't really want to have to go out and buy a WinCE version,
>>as that will require upgrading far more expensive software that 
>>works with it. :^(
>
>Against my better judgement, I tried Windows Mobile.  Never 
>again.  I'd rather use an old worn-out piece-of-shit PalmOS machine 
>than a WindowsCE machine.
>
>Peace...  Sridhar
>
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