The Garmin 496...a teenager's review
Hilton wrote:
Or more correctly put, the software that I used was a dog. I hear folks
blaming the hardware and the .NET framework continually when it really is a
application software problem. With care, attention, and good design, we
have our product running just great on a Smartphone, using .NET, on a 200MHz
CPU using an SD card transfering 1-bit at a time and we are able to access
any approach in the US in about one second. Anyway, I just wanted to ensure
that the blame was correctly directed.
I placed the blame exactly where I meant it: Windows XP. The POS
takes nearly 2 minutes just to start up and leaves about 1MB for
applications to swap pages in and out of. Not very helpful when
you're trying to look at, scroll and zoom large maps.
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