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[Ionut Negru <blackjohnny@xxxxxxxxx>]

Please excuse my ignorance, but what is this IOS? Is the OS shortening from 
operating system?

On Friday, October 9, 2015 1:02:21 AM EEST, Selene Scriven wrote:
> * Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > (note that this is pretty close to the IOS model (which shows 
> > this is techincally possible) and is the reason that we are 
> > currently miles better in battery life than android in the same 
> > device)
>
> It sounds a lot like the PalmOS model from the 90s.  It didn't 
> really have multitasking; it was more DOS-like.  Apps were 
> expected to save complete state and exit when losing focus, then 
> resume where they left off when started again.
>
> The PalmOS approach actually worked pretty well.  The best PDA I 
> ever used was a Palm m500, their last monochrome-screen model.  
> It wasn't a phone and it didn't have any networking built in, but 
> it was good at what it did.
>
>
> -- Selene



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