> On Oct 23, 8:58am, Dan (Shag) Birchall wrote:
>
> > Since "Almost 100%" of the code an OmniGo comes with is XIP, an OmniGo
> > 100 with 1Mb of RAM and 3Mb of XIP ROM should be able to handle apps
> as
> > well as a Zoomer with 2-4 Mb of RAM.
>
> True, it should run lots of simultaneous apps, which would certainly be
> an improvement over the Zoomer. The OmniGo 100 literature says that
> 640KB of RAM is available for user files, and I still think that is
> disappointingly small -- keep in mind that this storage area is for data
> and for add-on programs.
>
>
> XIP should also increase the startup speed for applications, since they
> don't need to load into main memory from ROM prior to execution.
Are you saying that the Zoomer applications don't run from ROM? If that's
true, it's amazing. What sloppy design! I'm tempted to throw mine away.
I just assumed that the bulk of the memory was used by Geos.
Barry
>
> I've used a similar technology for ROM-based execution of applications
> before, on a GRiD Compass, and those apps started up much faster than
> ones which had to load into RAM from (get this...) its 384KB bubble
> memory. The GRiD Compass was a laptop that was introduced around 1982.
> It had a compact multitasking OS, multiple (albeit character-oriented)
> windows, a nice set of integrated productivity apps, and a sleak black
> case. Sort of a big-footprint Zoomer that weighed 14 pounds and drew 75W
> of AC power :-).
>
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