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You mean, following down the path that Palm OS devices used since first released in 1996?
by vsync 16y ago
You mean, following down the path that Palm OS devices used since first released in 1996?
- Maktab 16y agoOr Newton OS devices from 1993. This isn't the first time that Apple has tried to build a computer with seamless state persistence and without a traditional exposed file system. That said, neither Palm OS or Newton OS could multitask. Android and the iPhone OS seem to have found a very elegant approach to that particular problem without compromising the user experience.
- sanj 16y agoActually, both of them could, but just in very limited ways. The Palm had 4 threads, only one of which was available to the developer. Another was used for comms and a third for graffiti processing. I don't think the last one was allocated. The Newton had at least two threads -- comms in the background were needed even in those dark ages.