Re: [NTLK] Thinking of Switching

From: Karel Jansens (kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be)
Date: Mon May 13 2002 - 07:04:44 EDT


On Monday 13 May 2002 03:29, Woo Lee wrote:
> ------------------
>
> >I just need full compatibility with my PC or Mac.
>
> Does any PDA platform really have FULL COMPATIBILITY with PC or Mac or
> Mac = OS X??? Will you jump into a 'perfect world' with the Palm or
> PPC??? ----------------
>
Not to nitpick, but Psion comes/came awefully close: Built-in apps write
industry-standard files, FAT file system on board, easy synchronisation
(as long as you're using Windows, that is).

I had a Series 3a that I passed on, but the Psion emulator is running
quite happily on my HP Omnibook 425; DOS can see any file on the Psion
partition and the emulator can see all of the DOS partition.

Psion is/was pretty fool-proof too: I had my 3a for 7 years and it didn't
reboot _once_ in all that time. Now that's what I call solid!

>
> Steve/Apple will probably come out with a 'mutated' Vacom tablet with a
> = 'Palm-like' interface that will run QT. To keep the desktop/laptop as
> the = required 'keyboard-based' computer.

Are you talking about the QT libraries for linux-based PDAs? They are
pretty kewl...

-- 
Karel Jansens
kareljansens_at_tiscalinet.be

"Size matters not." (Yoda, Jedi Master)

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