>- As for Geowork's XIP functionality, my educated guess is that you will have
>to buy a new Zoomer to gain the advantage. Since the Kernel is in ROM, it
>isn't and easy transplant. Also, I don't have access to their marketing
>thoughts for 2.1.. But, there are new Trips and Tricks being built by user's
>to swap out to a RAM card to expand your capabilities where needed.
Thanks for the XIP info (and thanks for your helpful information in
general). Just to make sure I understand your comment about swapping
to a RAM card (which, BTW, I tried once, but pointing the swap file
to drive C: didn't work for some reason): I think what you're saying
is that there are basically two performance adavantages to XIP. The
primary advantage is that you save time because an application doesn't
have to be copied from ROM to RAM in order to be executed. A secondary
advantage is that more RAM remains free and can be used for application
swapping (just the data area is swapped, I assume).
We can sort-of get this second advantage by swapping to a RAM card
(although the entire application is still swapped) and thereby keeping
the internal RAM free for application usage. Is that what you mean?
And where are these new "tips and tricks"? Sounds cool.
Anyway, I'm off to Vegas for some Comdex aerobics. Will I be able
to see GEOS 2.1 in a new PDA there?
-- Doug