Palm OS was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc, for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996.
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12 Facts About Palm OS
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Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface.
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Palm OS was originally developed under the direction of Jeff Hawkins at Palm Computing, Inc Palm was later acquired by U S Robotics Corp.
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All versions prior to Palm OS 5 are based on top of the AMX 68000 kernel licensed from KADAK Products Ltd.
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Palm OS Cobalt introduced modern operating system features to an embedded operating system based on a new kernel with multitasking and memory protection, a modern multimedia and graphic framework, new security features, and adjustments of the PIM file formats to better cooperate with Microsoft Outlook.
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Palm, Inc the main licensee of Palm OS Garnet did not license Access Linux Platform for their own devices.
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Instead, Palm OS developed another Linux-based operating system called Palm OS webOS.
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Palm OS licensees decide which applications are included on their Palm OS devices.
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Some models of Palm OS keep their data storage in volatile memory and require constant power to maintain their memory.
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Palm OS contains approximately 15 preference panels by default and new preference panels can be added just like any other application.
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HackMaster is an extension manager for Palm OS that includes several patches improving OS features.
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Palm OS has been involved in various lawsuits over the years.
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