Palm-size PC

A palm-size PC's start menu

The palm-size PC was Microsoft's first attempt at a computer conforming to a palmtop profile (or, as commonly referred to, a PDA). These devices demonstrated many firsts for this form factor, including wave sound output, color and (comparatively) high-resolution screens, and a standardized software environment that ran on many different manufacturers' hardware platforms. Palm-size PCs were unique in that they were one of the few standardized modern computing platforms that did not use any standard microprocessor – Palm-size PCs were available with ARM, SH3, MIPS, and x86 processors. The palm-size PC was never hugely successful, and Microsoft later replaced it with the Pocket PC.

Categories: PDAs