Thread: Run 30,000 Palm OS apps on your Nokia Internet Tablet
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2007-11-15 , 02:37
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#105
Originally Posted by TA-t3 View Post
Actually the vast majority of new applications are _still_ m68k, and they will run on old as well as new Palm devices. The exception is specialised, resource-hungry applications like TomTom and the like.
In addition to being all-Palm compatible, m68k apps are very small compared to arm apps. And they run fast still, the PACE m68k-to-ARM just-in-time compiler in PalmOS 5 is very good. I'm only running m68k apps in the GVM so far, another poster reported problems with armlet applications anyway.
Thanks for the correction TA-t3 - I last used a Plam device (Tungsten T) in 2002 and tended to focus more on the multimedia functionality which as far as I can recall was ARM native (at the time it was a major selling point for software!) but I guess it's possible/likely that many of the more mundane apps would continue to be targeted at the m68K platform in order to ensure the widest degree of compatability.

As for the apps which ship with the GarnetVM (ie. date book, calendar etc.) I assume they're ARM native - it would seem odd for ACCESS to continue providing m68K applications!