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Originally Posted by Russ Smith
When Palm was on top, their design philosophy worked well with the existing hardware. Where Microsoft was bent on a multi-tasking OS and a complete file system, Palm built small, quick, and functional.
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Just remember that by "built" you mean that Palm licensed a kernel from Kadak then put their own APIs on top of it. Now they are building on top of Linux. To this day, Palm/PalmSource have never built an OS from the ground up.