Registered: Apr 2001
Location: Chicago, IL
Posts: 46

Visor OS upgrade

Okay, this is all presuming that you have a MemPlug and have freed up a goodly portion of your main RAM...

We are all aware (and should have been when we purchased these units) that the OS ROM is not flash upgradeable. Boo Hoo for us.

However, isn't a more robust upgrade (say to Palm OS 4.x or possibly even 5.0) possible by putting it into the RAM as an update. This is basically what HS has done up to this point with their various updates after introducing a unit.

Has anyone done this?

Thoughts?

Thanks...

Just another crazy idea...

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Atlantic Rim
Posts: 570

Over and Over

This topic has been pounded to death ad nauseum for three years now, and the answers (from those far more technically adept than I) always range between no and definately not.

The updates Handspring has released are essentially very minor tweaks -- officially santioned "hacks" to correct or compensate for shortcomings of the OS. A major upgrade is a significant overhaul of the OS which affects everything...the way the OS and memory interact.

A parable would be to suggest that a Windows 95 machine could be made to run an application which requires Windows XP with a third-party app running interference between the obsolete OS and the up-to-date application...it is theoretically possible, but an undertaking that would be neither elegant or worth the investment in programming.

Registered: Jul 2000
Location:
Posts: 3034

Re: Over and Over

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Originally posted by Keefer Lucas
This topic has been pounded to death ad nauseum for three years now, and the answers (from those far more technically adept than I) always range between no and definately not. [...]

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