Squeak on Palm Zire?

Ned Konz ned at squeakland.org
Fri Feb 18 23:09:32 UTC 2005


On Friday 18 February 2005 7:29 am, Brian Brown wrote:
> So does Palm OS 5 still enforce these types of memory limits and
> segregation now that the high end models are running on XScale
> processors? I had *hoped* that they would take advantage of some of the
> potential of the new hardware platform, but I realize that they would
> have issues with backward compatibility if they did that, although they
> could probably do some emulation.

From what I understand, the only real difference is that some machines have 
more memory, and now you can take individual subroutines (presumably also 
limited to 64K in size?) and compile them as native ARM code.

The Tapwave Zodiac would be a nice Squeak machine...

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