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Posted by blu_chze on Mon Apr 5th at 3:46am 2004

? posted by Crono
Yes, it's good.

It's just the operating system for Palm Pilots. But it's nothing compared to it's full blown computer counterparts

*ponders*

makes sense.But i wanna be a PC OS!

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Posted by Crono on Mon Apr 5th at 3:49am 2004

Palms are good and reliable. Their OS is efficient and nice. I've noticed from using other peoples palms that you don't really notice load times ... unlike some phones ran under a window based os

I have one word for you blu: Kwitcherbitchin [addsig]



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Posted by Sim on Mon Apr 5th at 7:31pm 2004

<img src=http://www.bbspot.com/images/news_features/2003/01/os_quiz/windows_95.jpg width="300" height="90"
border="0" alt="You are Windows 95. You look better than your older brother, but your communication skills are still lacking. You start well, but often zone out.">

Bleh.

( what's wrong?)

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Posted by Myrk- on Mon Apr 5th at 8:21pm 2004

First time I did this I was Amiga, that was about a month ago. Did it again and now-

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Posted by Cash Car Star on Mon Apr 5th at 10:42pm 2004

Sim, you need to take the block of code it gives you, which is in HTML, and translate it into BBCode. This basically consists of figuring out which part of the mush is the URL for the picture and then putting that in an [ img ] tag.



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Posted by Wild Card on Mon Apr 5th at 11:00pm 2004

I just right-clicked the pic, and copyed the addy into the img code. [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Tue Apr 6th at 12:03am 2004

Yer the image button and paste a pic url, quickest way. [addsig]



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Posted by gimpinthesink on Wed Apr 7th at 9:54am 2004

Yay I'm

aand strangly enough it does actually sum me up

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Posted by Myrk- on Wed Apr 7th at 11:19am 2004

Mines completely the opposite of what I am...

I've got a dark exterior which looks evil, and inside I'm unstable... meh whatever.

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Posted by blu_chze on Thu Apr 8th at 5:22am 2004

? posted by Crono
Palms are good and reliable. Their OS is efficient and nice. I've noticed from using other peoples palms that you don't really notice load times ... unlike some phones ran under a window based os

I have one word for you blu: Kwitcherbitchin

i wish i could...but its fun to bitch

i havent used anythin else to a palm, so i cant compare, but theyre still good (3ccs of hipocrisy and spelling over here STAT)

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Posted by Crono on Thu Apr 8th at 7:55am 2004

The only other thing you can compare them to is pocket pc's which are ran under Windows CE, I believe. The Palms run much faster, partially due to the OS and architecture structure. Also, Palm's are programmed in Assembly only, I'm not sure what languages Pocket PCs support, probably MS-C. And to be honest, not much is faster then 'machine language' [addsig]



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Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Apr 8th at 11:05am 2004

Er. Crono, sorry, but you're wrong on a few counts.

1. Modern pocket pcs run Windows Mobile 2003, not CE. Which is nitpicking of me. Sorry.

2. It depends on what you use them for. You want to run a Flash player, media player, book reader, etc, all at the same time, of COURSE you're going to have it running slower. That said, because Palms support only very limited multithreading (1 or two threads, I'm told) and therefore don't run many programs at once, you'll get faster performance because the processor has to do less.

3. All CPU's are programmed in Assembly only. What a compiler does is convert whatever language you want into machine code (assembler). You can write Palm code in whatever language you want. I believe that Palm OS was largely written in C/C++. Yes, writing your code directly in assembly language may sometimes make your code faster/smaller, but compilers these days perform so many optimisations that it often doesn't matter.

4. What the hell is MS-C? Are you thinking of MS Visual C++? If so, that's a compiler, not a language. But yes, VC++ is a dodgy compiler compared to the alternatives like GCC.

5. Close. Not much is faster than WELL MADE machine code. It's very easy to make an inefficient program in assembly. Trust me, when you spend half an hour wondering why this damn program runs SO BLOODY SLOW THAT-- ahem, yes.

Sorry to be so pedantic, but this sort of thing is my gig.



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Apr 8th at 12:19pm 2004

Des you remind me of Amiga with that quality question about when co workers make a mistake, do you be quiet, sleep through it, or let rip and destroy them!

/me pets DesPlesda

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Posted by DesPlesda on Thu Apr 8th at 12:31pm 2004

I didn't let rip and destroy him! I merely.. corrected him



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Posted by Sim on Thu Apr 8th at 7:02pm 2004

Amiga's rock. We had a 500 when it was new, and it cost us ?500. Well worth the money though. [addsig]



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Posted by Myrk- on Thu Apr 8th at 9:18pm 2004

? posted by DesPlesda
I didn't let rip and destroy him! I merely.. corrected him

Of course

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