Re: Installing apps on memory cards - possible?

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From: Charles Kooy (charles_kooy_at_despammed.com)
Date: 05/17/04 

Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 16:51:03 +1000

AlanS <news@remove.abyz.fslife.co.uk> wrote:

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>
> Remember that external memory is slower than internal memory and programs
> may not be so responsive or run as fast. I've particularly noticed it with
> those written in Visual Basic- for example ShoppingList 2.2 is painful on a
> memory card, but better in internal memory (400 MHz ppc).

Yup, it was the same on the Palm. I'll keep an eye out for that.

Thanks all, it is good to know there's such a good resource I can turn
to as I go through the learning curve with a new device/architecture!

ck 

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