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So, yesterday, as I was trying to get home from CES, my plane out of Las Vegas got delayed for four and a half hours. During that time, I got pretty bored, so I started using Palmasaurus to poke around my Treo 650. I always get a kick looking at the hidden databases and hidden applications that you never get to see. While digging through it, I noticed that the 'a68k' temp files that get associated with 68k native applications on OS 5 weren't there any more. (See here for more info on these.) In a nutshell, these temp databases are used when PACE runs a 68k application. After digging some more, I discovered that these databases actually are still present, however, they are now named 'PACERsrcDBx' where x is a number. Now, I doubt that this will actually impact most Palm OS developers, but I did think that it was mildly interesting. One thing that I couldn't figure out though, was how PACE maps one of these PACERxxx databases to a particular 68k application. While Palmasaurus was running, I noticed that there were 10 of these databases, and the 0th one had 6 records in it while all the others had none. I assume that the 0th PACERxxx database was for Palmasaurus. What that makes me wonder is if the 10 databases are hardcoded? If they are, can PACE only actively run 10 applications at a time? If you know the answer to this, I'd love to know. One last thing: I think that the Tungsten T5 probably has these changes as well, but I left mine at work, and so I couldn't check it. |
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| Submitted by bosshogg on Wednesday the 31st 1970f December 1969, at 04:00 | |
