Palm unveils new OS, but defers big-bang to 2003
Source: The Register
Palm finally has a modern, 32bit operating system to boast about, but has staggered the roadmap so that most of the gain - and most of the pain for developers - is deferred until the next major release.
"The next OS release will be even bigger - a lot bigger in terms of new APIs," said PalmSource's David Fetter. PalmSource is the new name for the software side of Palm, Inc.
What Palm has done with the ARM-native release 5.0 to write a new binary compatible - well, kinda - OS that gives an immediate speed boost to 68000 Palm applications, which run in an emulator. The OS ships to licensees in late summer or early autumn, so it's possible that speed-bumped Palms will be on the market in time for Christmas.
