On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 19:56:50 -0500 in Ted Byers wrote:

For a program like this, this would be the smartest option. A relatively
new PC or laptop would certainly be capable of giving decent performance
with this kind of application.

And a bit too bulky to carry around in someone else's greenhouse
complex.

As always, the trick is to design your application for a specific target
platform, and recognize that some platforms are totally inadequate for some
applications at a given time. A PDA may be totally inappropriate for an
application with the amount of data managed by OrchidWiz, right now, but the
PDA of 2015 may be well suited to such an application.

IMHO, OrchidWiz currently has the shortcoming of the application
cannot be broken from the collection of data.
Given the data, a geek can kludge up an adequate interface to access
the relevant subsets of the data from a PDA.
I know that I could have used some remote access to genus description
and renaming tables Saturday and one or two pictures.
The bandwidth of the various PDAs with long distance wireless data
access would have been adequate to retrieve that information, even
though current generation PDAs would have been illsuited to
running the entire application.

[Various Snippage concerning power of PDAs]

One thing I'll never understand is why tasks
that could be done on the pocket computers of 20 years ago
now require almost the same resources as tasks that couldn't
be done on the pocket computers of 20 years ago...

--
Chris Dukes
Suspicion breeds confidence -- Brazil