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2005-03-29 09:56:13 AM
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"Michael Anonymous" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
software could be acquired that made it take almost a decade for 32-bit
software to catch on. Afterall, it did not take a decade for the average PC
user to find and locate a vendor or store that sold software. It took almost
a decade for the average user to start buying 32-bit software from those
vendors and stores.
Listen sonny, there is nothing new under the sun. It will always take years
for any technology to catch on, no matter what the delivery mechanism. This
has to do with economics. It simply makes no economic sense for firms to
instantly replace what currently works as soon as it becomes physically
possible to do so.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
 

"Michael Anonymous" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
 

"Michael Anonymous" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
prior years by OS/2 and several versions of NT, yet most software being sold
in 1995 was still 16-bit.
on profits from a D64 for at least half a decade.
Look, it is obvious from your posts that you weren't around in the days of
OS/2 and NT 3.5, or you'd know these things.
 

Michael Anonymous <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
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silence looking at blank monitors back then.
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Nick Hodges [TeamB] writes:
Palm OS is because it is hard to develop for it.
I think one key for a platform to be a successful platform is the
availability of the developement tools and how well developers are
supported.
It is easier to find applications or business that use Pocket PC rather
than PalmOS or BlackBerry. I think the development tools is one of the
reason.
Speculation, if there was a really good support for Palm OS developer,
probably there will be greater market for Palm OS.
It is Chicken and egg.
Wien.
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Dave White wrote in <424883c5$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>:
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Jim Cooper wrote in <42489827$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>:
mileage is on a car before purchasing it.
Will
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John Jacobson wrote in <42483555$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>:
still wrong now. I do like how you keep insisting that you're right
though, it is almost cute.
I'll say it as plain as I can: you have no idea what you're talking
about.
Will
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Captain Jake wrote in <4248b5b9$XXXX@XXXXX.COM>:
why this statement is wrong and yet you persist in restating it each
and every time this discussion begins anew-- how many times do you need
to be shown you're wrong before you will begin to remember it the next
time?
Will
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Paul Dolen wrote in <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>:
(64-bit arithmetic requires an additional byte of machine code per
arithmetic operation, so 64-bit arithmetic is inherently larger). That
being said, 64-bit arithmetic on x64 is still a LOT faster than 64-bit
arithmetic on x86.
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"Will DeWitt Jr." <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
just met your first <G>I don't remember ever asking what a car's MPG is
before buying - gas is SO much cheaper over here than it was when I lived in
the UK that it is completely irrelevant to my buying decision. Although the
way gas is going up now, when I but my next car later this year, I probably
will be taking gas consumption into account.
 

for the PalmOS, not the market for the PalmOS.
than are available now. These things are subject to fashion like
everything else.
:-) There are far more apps for the PalmOS than PocketPC, and hardly any
at all for the Blackberry. It is only recently that Blackberry have
opened up their API. And I am not aware of any particularly capable dev
tools for that platform.
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
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with a first-class, robust 64bit compiler out of the blue
at the last minute?
Eric
 

Even if people do ask (or get told), hardly anyone makes car purchase
decisions that way.
With software it is a different sort of market though. Most Delphi
developers are not in the business of providing shrink-wrapped software
(or whatever you call the net delivered equivalent), which is the
nearest equivalent.
Cheers,
Jim Cooper
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bus width with CPU registry width (or the P3 with SSE could already
be considered to be a 128bit CPU).
Eric