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>A History of Palm OS devices.</TITLE
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>Palm OS Desktop HOWTO</TH
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NAME="HISTORY">A.3. A History of Palm OS devices.</H1
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>This section is included unchanged from the original document. It's
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clearly out of date, and I'm not sure if it's worth keeping in. It's a
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bit offtopic for a Linux howto, and the effort of keeping it current
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seems a bit pointless. Instead I've added a section detailing devices
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that use the Palm operating system, and which therefore should work with
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the instructions in this HOWTO.</P
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>There are two versions of
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the Pilot. They are the <EM
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>1000</EM
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> and the
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<EM
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>5000</EM
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> and have 128k and 512k of RAM,
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respectively. They come with Palm OS 1.0 in ROM. </P
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>Then came two devices with the name <EM
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>PalmPilot</EM
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>. They are the <EM
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>PalmPilot Personal</EM
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> and the <EM
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>PalmPilot Professional</EM
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> and have 512k and 1 Meg
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of RAM, respectively. They also have a backlighting feature for the
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LCD panel and version 2.0 of the operating system. The <EM
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>Professional</EM
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> also comes with a TCP/IP stack and
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a few extra programs built-in. </P
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>IBM has released a rebadged version of the PalmPilot Professional,
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which they call a <EM
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>WorkPad</EM
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>. </P
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>Now we have the Palm III, which has a redesigned case and an
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infrared port, not to mention the 2 Meg of RAM and Palm OS 3.0. </P
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>There is an announced product from Qualcomm, called the
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<EM
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>pdQ smartphone</EM
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>, which is a cell phone
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that incorporates a Palm OS PDA. Don't get all excited about it yet,
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it will not be released until sometime in 1999. </P
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>It is possible to upgrade any Pilot by swapping out the memory
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card, which includes both RAM & ROM. Of course, this doesn't get
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you backlighting for the original Pilot series. </P
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