Palm OS

Palm OS is an operating system made by PalmSource, Inc. for personal digital assistants (PDAs) manufactured by various licensees. In May 2005, PalmSource sold the rights to the Palm name to palmOne. As of August 2005, the new name for Palm OS (and PalmSource) has not been announced.

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Operating system - PalmSource, Inc. - Personal digital assistant - PalmOne

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Two major versions of Palm OS are currently under development: Palm OS Garnet (5.x), and Palm OS Cobalt (6.x). The names were introduced in February 2004 in an attempt to make it clear that 5.x development would not stop while 6.x development was ongoinghttp://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1523110,00.asp. As of August 2005, all devices use Palm OS Garnet. Likely as a result of Palm OS Cobalt's lack of adoption, PalmSource has shifted to developing Palm OS Cobalt's APIs on top of a Linux kernel.

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