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diesel · 02-25-03, 01:34 PM

This might be a stupid question but out of curiosity why were PDA's designed in such a way that when your batteries completely die or you hard reset, all programs and data are lost and everything is reset back to its original state? Why is it that when you save something to the PDA's memory, that it's not truly saved like on a computer hard drive.

On a pda, if there's no power left in the device, all data is lost. On a regular computer that is not the case. What was the reason for this as far as PDA's are concerned?

Thanks.

Curious Eric

02-25-03, 01:34 PM	#1 (permalink)
diesel Aximsite Major League Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 426 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Stupid PDA "WHY" Question This might be a stupid question but out of curiosity why were PDA's designed in such a way that when your batteries completely die or you hard reset, all programs and data are lost and everything is reset back to its original state? Why is it that when you save something to the PDA's memory, that it's not truly saved like on a computer hard drive. On a pda, if there's no power left in the device, all data is lost. On a regular computer that is not the case. What was the reason for this as far as PDA's are concerned? Thanks. Curious Eric