Replies to post #15236 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[yourbankruptcy]

wbmw, I see a clear thrend that PDA's are moving toward Java. This new J2ME is pretty new, I beleive it got to the Beta status just this year, but the acceptance rate is amazing. There are already many hundreds of small apps ready, and Motorola already started to ship it in cellphones for real customers. This is an absolute record of time-to-market for the last 5 years!

And you know why? I downloaded the toolkit few weeks ago (everything is free), clicked the "install" button as many times as it was required, launched it. And then it took me just 3 minutes to create a simple "Hello World" application, ready to download to any PDA (they all support J2ME now) and many existing cellphones. Without reading any documentation, because the toolkit can create a primitive app skeleton using the wizard. Amazing...

Can you imagine that the experienced developer can sit in the morning and by the evening create a simple game or application, ready to download to virtually any pocket device?

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wbmw, that is interesting perspective on PDAs. Now, I have an old PIII 266MHz laptop which runs Windows 2000 for the single purpose of maintaining my external DNS server (split DNS implementation for security). I used to use that as my main PC and it ran most Windows apps just fine.

Now, it is hard to exactly compare processors between different architecture. However, current PDAs have processors clocked much higher than that old laptop (and with more DRAM). I tend to think that it is possible to install an OS like Windows on it & have it run standard office apps, I don't know why the demo you saw ran so poorly.

In addition to the compatibility problems I had with Pocket Word, there were other limitations which made the Toshiba e740 insufficient. For instance, I purchased a flash card for it (for the purpose of installing apps) but found that apps can only be installed to the internal flash.

In short, the whole thing seemed purposely crippled so as not to compete with desktop Windows.