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The Undocumented
Pilot Page
Hardware: Larger memory upgrades?
The Pilot is capable of using more that just 1 meg. CoPilot, a Windows based Pilot emulator can handle 2 meg using the Pilot's ROM programs. Hardware hackers report that the pins can handle up to 16 meg, in theory. No, USR has no plans to produce chips larger than 1 meg. This statment was confirmed by a Boot magazine interview (Aug 97, p34-41) with Pilot inventor Jeff Hawkins.
3rd party companies are now making 2meg and 3meg Pilot upgrades. Check out the Pilot Gear site at www.PilotGear.com They have full stats on the battery life implications as well.
I received a letter on this topic from Steve Simmons, who runs an excellent Pilot hardware site:
"The memory connector has all the address lines available. This means up to 16mb total could be built. Current SRAM technology combined with the limited board space available inside the Pilot limit us to 6mb or possibly 8mb on a single card. An 8mb card would probably cut battery life to about 3 weeks."
"I have designed a memory board that supports up to 3mb of SRAM and 1mb of FlashROM. Initial capitalization of the project and licensing issues with USR on the OS have halted this project."
"The Palm OS has been tested in simulation with 8mb ram with no problems."
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