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#21
Originally Posted by aegis View Post
IIRC Execute in place relied on a particular kind of memory chip that would be impractical in today's more complex systems but yes the jump from UIQ 2 to 3 where they also did this despite the improved hardware and more RAM resulted in death of UIQ IMHO.
AFAIK XIP only works with NOR-Flash, which is not that common anymore (I think you could not make them really big like with NAND).

SRAM was also cool (my HP-48 has that but way too expensive..
 

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