Introduction | SECTION 1 |
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.
"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.
"The 6620 Computer uses an AMD 5X86, 133 MHz processor. Test the performance of your application on a comparable computer.
