At 09:59 PM 4/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
>This is one palmtop I'm possibly looking at, seems to come with an 802.11b
>card.
>
>http://home.intermec.com/eprise/main/Intermec/Content/Products/Products_Show
>Detail?section=Products&Product=CMPTR6651&Category=CMPTR&Family=CMPTR2#
1. PalmOS / PalmVNC - viewer assumes you do not have memory to store entire
screen, so it requests partial screen updates whenever you scroll. For
best results, you need to use special patches to support server side
scaling (a feature that I think would be nice to have in the main code
base, but I have odd needs...)
2. Windows CE units - every CE unit I have tested with, from ARM based
Jornada HPC Pros (640x480) to new generation PocketPC MIPS 209MHz
processors, is incredibly slow. Think seconds/frame instead of
frames/second. From personal programming experience, a large portion of
this problem is the pathetic graphics and memory I/O systems in CE units.
Attempting to do full Win32 level graphics routines over such slow hardware
is painful. I am currently doing mods to accelerate the graphics on
PocketPCs (needs GAPI), but the solution is not of general use (I cannot
scroll around on a virtual desktop, so everything on the desktop must fit
on the screen of the PDA -- really only useful for UNIX based servers where
you can create a desktop of the desired resolution)
3. Any kind of real computer with real graphics and memory bus support will
be an order of magnitude or more faster than any device from category 1 or
2 that I have been able to work with. Toshiba and Sony both make
exceedingly small Intel machines capable of running Windows 98/ME, Linux,
BeOS, or whatever feels good. If you can afford them, you will get a much
more flexible solution that feels a *lot* better to use. On the downside,
your battery life won't be as good, either...
My view from the trenches,
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