Other environments, Pen for windows 2.0 – Intermec 6620 User Manual

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SECTION 1

Introduction

1-18 6620 Hand-Held Computer Technical Reference

Pen for Windows 2.0

Pen for Windows 2.0 consists of standard Windows with ex-

tra files, some changes to SYSTEM.INI, and a new file

called PENWIN.INI. Pen Extensions for Windows provides

character recognition and an easier interface for capturing

ink. A handwriting capture engine must be purchased sep-

arately, either through Norand Mobile Systems Division or

other sources.

Other Environments

Obviously, any development environment, that runs on the

aforementioned operating systems, may potentially be used

to develop software for the 6620 Computer. However, not

all of the development environments will necessarily work

as well, nor are they recommended. This is mainly, because

of storage capacity and speed limitations of the 6620 Com-

puter.

There are other usable development environments. Here

are some guidelines that can help to determine whether a

particular environment is viable for a 6620 application.

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How much space is required?

Many environments assume the target machine is a

desktop or laptop with virtually unlimited hard drive

space. This may not be the case if the target system is

to run off an ATA card. Keep storage requirements in

mind during development. For example, Power Build-

er is a very popular environment for development.

However, just to get an application started, Power

Builder uses more than 3 MB of DLLs in addition to

Windows just to run the Hello World program.

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The 6620 Computer uses an AMD 5X86, 133 MHz

processor. Test the performance of your application on

a comparable computer.

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