[calvin-c]

In another thread someone said that PPC's can run multiple programs at the same time (i.e. multi-tasking) while Palms can't. I'm curious about this as I had a Palm for years & now have a PPC & see little if any difference between them regarding this.

Assuming the poster is correct that the Palm closes a program when you switch to a different one, then it must 'close' it while saving all processing data as it always resumed at exactly the same point where I 'closed' it. In fact I never learned how to actually close a program on the Palm-maybe I just wasn't interested.

On the PPC I found a screen labelled 'running programs' which lets me close them if I want to. So far I haven't seen any reason why I would want to but then I've only had my PPC for a couple of months (and have been too busy with other things to spend as much time 'playing' with it as I'd like to).

I've never used an 'active' program that continues processing while in background-I assume that they're out there but I've never run across them. Perhaps those work differently between the Palm & PPC, but the programs I use (eBook readers, documents & spreadsheets, mapping software, games) don't.

[kiwiguy]

The newer Palm OS will be multitasking, Google has all the info on this you never need to know.

Try the keywords palm multitasking.

Saves reproducing it here.

[psionandy]

Originally Posted by kiwiguy

The newer Palm OS will be multitasking, Google has all the info on this you never need to know.

Try the keywords palm multitasking.

Saves reproducing it here.

when it eventually ships... I gave up nearly 2 years ago when i made the jump to Pocket PC...

and i've never looked back

[calvin-c]

So are you saying that the current Palms don't do multi-tasking? Like I said originally, mine gave every appearance of running several programs at once-I never had to close one to open another one and if the OS was closing them when I switched then it was doing a good job of hiding the fact.

The one thing I've never tested is whether or not a program continues processing while in background. If it's suspended then the OS isn't truly multi-tasking, but it isn't closing the program either & that, to me, is much more important than whether or not it continues processing.

As far as I can see the PPC does the same...the only difference I've found between the OS's is that WM5 apparentlly runs programs from the storage card. Presumably the current Palm OS does this too, but the latest version I have (4, I think) doesn't. Oh, and I seem to be stuck with that crappy WMP on the PPC. Does anyone know how to remove that & install a *real* media player?