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Expanding the PDA's Potential: A Review of Expansion Memory Card Support in Palm-Powered PDA's

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Overview This paper reviews the history of memory storage and expansion memory on the Palm OS platform. The paper explains the reasons why expansion memory is an attractive feature. The paper also enumerates the various devices and standards offered by PDA manufacturers. The paper provides a close examination of the Palm OS Virtual File System (VFS), on which most of the expansion memory support that is available today is based.

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Publisher	Bachmann Software	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	January 2002	Downloads	58
Format	White Papers
Topics	Palm OS, Palm, PDA

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