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Originally Posted by Tzvi
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I think that it would run way to slow to be usable, but it is a good question. Anybody know?
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Almost impossible. Flash ROM is about two orders of magnitude slower than RAM to write - and even read. As has already been pointed out, RAM contains dynamic stuff - program variables/objects on the heap, the stack etc. This would work only if you managed to map the most dynamic stuff to real RAM and "only" stored less-changing stuff in ROM. As some apps need dozens of Megabytes of heap (say, Cube - see my multiplayer game roundup at
http://www.pocketpcmag.com/blogs/men...MPPPCGames.asp on it, or image editors - see for example
http://www.winmobiletech.com/PICVIEWERS on this q), it would be practically impossible to do the mapping.
The operating system just doesn't support this.