Registered: Oct 1999
Location:
Posts: 9

Anyone know this?:

"Improved" basic included apps (such as the new Datebook): where are they on the Visor?

They don't seem to be etched in the ROM since, I understand, the old scheduler is still present as well.

Do they 'boot up' into flash RAM?

Or are they simply included in regular old volatile RAM as would any add-on app (in which case ,then, can they be removed &/or updated later in a way that the original basic apps could not)?

How 'bout it?

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Salem, OR, USA
Posts: 91

They don't seem to be etched in the ROM since, I understand, the old scheduler is still present as well.

I'm sure they are in ROM. They probably included the original datebook so new users would have added simplicity and it couldn't be claimed they left anything out. (flash ROM anyone? remember, 5%...)

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Midland, Texas
Posts: 231

I too would guess the new 'stuff' would be in the ROM.

This is yet another reason that the lack of Flash ROM is not such a big deal to me. After all the added app features (Datebk3 is really large as Palm apps go, even slimmed down I bet it is well over 100K) as well as added USB support, springboard support, etc. the available unused ROM space is probably of little use. I've heard that with OS 3.3 the free ROM space is down to 600+K, and I bet 3.1h is lower than that. FlashPro is beginning to become much less useful, especially with the advent of the back-up springboard. And with the history of flash necessary OS updates(hint: none to date) it seems to me that non-flashable ROM is no big deal.

tyler

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Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Salem, OR, USA
Posts: 91

What I was getting at was that if Handspring had decided to leave out the original datebook there would be as much an uproar as there is now about flash ROM.

Registered: Oct 1999
Location: brooklyn, ny, usa
Posts: 190

the enhanced applications are essentally in ROM. There are small parts of the apps in RAM.

Registered: Sep 1999
Location: Indianapolis, IN, USA
Posts: 36

I'm sure they are in rom too, that would be the only logical answer