Why isn NS Basic/CE just like NS Basic/Palm?
There isn’t any practical way to do this on handheld computers. These devices are all very resource bound. There isn’t much memory, cpu speed or screen size. To make a product like this work efficiently, one has to make full use of what is available in the hardware and the ROM. The devices all have very different architectures. Cross OS compatibility has a real overhead cost, and there’s not room for overhead on these devices. Futhermore, each unit has a unique user interface. We wouldn’t make people happy if the applications they created for Windows CE looked like Palm apps. The BASIC language itself is pretty much the same. What we can do is stick with our core objective: make a development tool that is easy and rewarding to use. With good documentation and support, it isn’t too bad to move from one platform to the other.
