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Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
While handheld computers have been readily available for only a short time, they have had a tremendous impact on the way information is recorded and used. The most basic of palmtops is certainly many times faster and more powerful than the old IBM PC and AT computers of the 1980's, and the software available for them is very sophisticated.
Unlike an electronic "organizer", a PDA is now able to support powerful software that would have been at home on a fully-functional desktop computer only a few years ago. These include word processing, data analysis, communications and multimedia applications. Recent advances in electronic memory storage make it possible to store hundreds of megabytes of documents and applications on a PDA. Finally, new protocols for short-distance wireless communications extend control from the PDA to many useful accessory devices.
As the personal computer industry is primarily divided into Apple Macintosh and Windows/PC categories, palmtop computers are divided into two camps: PalmOS and Microsoft PocketPC/WindowsMobile. These two categories differ in design philosophy, cost and capabilities.
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