Its most serious competition is a family of devices from various vendors based on the Windows CE operating system. In some ways the competition between these two systems is reminiscent of the earlier Macintosh-Windows battle.
Users become familiar with a device and develop strong preferences.
This paper will address objective questions like programming and communication interfaces. OS The Palm OS was originally designed for a device with 512K of memory and no hard disk. Although the Palm OS was modified to allow use of larger memory, it retains its original base architecture and processing speed. It is almost impossible for an ordinary user to use anywhere near the full 8M. Windows CE is a scaled down version of the Windows 9x operating system. Access it is fairly simple to fill a typical 16 or 32M system.