COBALT

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COBALT

• By Joey Moholt and Mike McCarthy

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Not COBOL
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Not the mineral
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Not the Car
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Palm OS - Cobalt
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Personal Digital Assistants

• First introduced in 1992
• Apple Newton
• Used to replace many common day objects

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A brief history

• Version 1.x
• Version 2.x
• Version 3.x
• Version 4.x
• Version 5.x

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Feature of Cobalt

• Version 6.x
• 32-bit fully ARM-native OS
• Scalable, modular, standards-based architecture
• Fully multithreading and multitasking operating
  system
• Unified, STREAMS-based communications
  architecture
• Standard high-density display support for
  multiple screen configurations
• Extensible multimedia framework to ease
  development of next-generation applications
• Improved synchronization architecture
• An expanded set of development tools for
  ARM-native application development PACE (Palm
  Application Compatibility Environment) to provide
  backwards compatibility with previous Palm OS
  versions

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GUI