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Originally Posted by Ed Hansberry
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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. |
Good point. I'd forgotten that Palm licensed the orginal kernel too. That makes even more sense out of their decision to build on top of Linux.
twpd: I don't see this as "Palm-bashing." Ed's original comments are no different from what I've seen written by very pro-Palm bloggers. (Even my comments aren't much different.) The questions are pretty valid.