Efficiency

ziggy on 2002-05-22T23:03:33

Palm OS 5 handhelds will use roughly half the power as Pocket PC handhelds running the same hardware.

-- random motorola spokesperson, describing the upcoming migration to Palm OS 5 and ARM CPUs


ARM

koschei on 2002-05-23T07:10:24

Mmm. I'm holding off buying a Palm until I can get an ARM in my Palm.

I like how they mention that Intel make ARM-based processors. I wonder if they're happy they had that thing with Digital a few years ago (used to be Digital that made ARMs).

I should've asked in the Parrot questions: why can't Parrot assembler be more like ARM assembler. It's very nice. At the very least because all the conditionals can be attached to any instruction.