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Palm is in the process of porting its operating to run on ARM processors, which were previously used in Apple's Newton PDA. News.com reports that a switch to ARM-based chips means that Palm OS-based handhelds will run at significantly higher clock speeds than their current 33MHz.
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Is thgis a sigh that Apple's Newton experienced team may be drumming up a PDA. Plam would have to support it for market share...
I thought Steve had them killed and buried in unmarked graves.
Now even PDA are going to have higher clock speed than Macs. Come on, Apple!
What the heck is an "operating?" MacNN Editorial... :rolleyes:
Does this mean the palm will go for $800 a piece?
The ARM chip was developed by Acorn Computer back in 1986 and debuted in their 1987 computer, the Acorn Archimedes which became the world first RISC-based personal computer and the most powerful one you could buy. In 1989 RISC OS made it's entry onto the Acorn platform with a GUI to die for.
Acorn computer served the UK schools market and had a fantatical if small following world-wide. They finally gave up in 1998 after aborted the RISC PC II project which was touted as an iMac beater by the Acorn press.
Acorn formed ARM Holdings with Apple Computer in the mid ninties and the chips were repurposed for the embedded market. The chips have been used in the new Gameboy, the Newton, the 3DO console and Psion organisers most notably. Given that a StrongARM based Acorn RISC PC was still holding it's own against the PowerPC and Intel desktop chips in 1996, Palm now can now make seriously powerful handhelds able to do desktop-like tasks with ease.
WinCE devices seem to run at much higher clock speeds than Palms (compaq POS runs at 206 MHz) but a PC-centric person told me that WinCE devices ran "too slowly" compared to Palms (@ "only" 33 MHz).
Also, are these the same processors already used in the compaq pdas?
"206 MHz Intel® Strong ARM 32-bit Processor". Seem to be. Maybe the WinCE PDAs just run a c*** OS...
Macs should use an ARM chip. It's a RISC chip and is stupidly powerful compared to many others.
I think StrongARM is faster MHz for MHz than the DragonBall (more or less 68000 with higher MHz) currently used. Palm think of using 200 MHz StrongARM. If I remember well the Newton MessagePad 2000 used 160 MHz StrongARM...
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But will it be faster?
Well, from what we learned from the MHz myth... this does not mean it will be faster....