Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/01/28

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Subject: [Leica] Windows on an iPad
From: abridge at gmail.com (Adam Bridge)
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:24:56 -0800
References: <6a7544a61001280608k16a058b7r512c10f4b8e887cf@mail.gmail.com> <B7536977-50D8-49BE-BB21-DB93AFF65CAB@aotera.org>
 
An emulator (virtual machine)  is not allowed under the iPhone OS unless
it's completely locked in to a single application. Hence HP can market the
HP15 calculator which has a virtual machine that runs that calculator's
micro-code but can't be programmed beyond what the calculator provided.

There was an outfit that ported the Commodore 64 to the iPhone but which (oh
silly me, they said) gave access to the Basic interpreter and not just a
single game. It was kicked out. I don't think it's been allowed back
although I haven't searched the store.

Same for Java - no virtual machine.

But now that there is more real estate maybe HP will port over the HP 41 or
other of it's great scientific calculators. The form factor would be
perfect!

Adam
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