Palm OS
Palm OS (also known as Garnet OS) was a mobile operating system initially developed by Palm, Inc., for personal digital assistants (PDAs) in 1996. Palm OS was designed for ease of use with a touchscreen-based graphical user interface. It is provided with a suite of basic applications for personal information management. Later versions of the OS have been extended to support smartphones. The software appeared on the company's line of Palm devices while several other licensees have manufactured devices powered by Palm OS.
Palm m505, running Palm OS 4.0 | |
| Developer | Palm, Inc., ACCESS (Garnet OS) |
|---|---|
| Written in | C++ |
| OS family | Palm OS |
| Working state | Discontinued since 2009 |
| Source model | Closed-source |
| Initial release | 1996 |
| Latest release | Garnet OS 5.4.9 / October 14, 2007 |
| Available in | English, French, Japanese and more |
| Platforms | ARM Motorola 68k |
| License | Proprietary EULA |
| Official website | Garnet OS |
| Support status | |
| Unsupported | |
Following Palm's purchase of the Palm trademark, the currently licensed version from ACCESS was renamed Garnet OS. In 2007, ACCESS introduced the successor to Garnet OS, called Access Linux Platform; additionally, in 2009, the main licensee of Palm OS, Palm, Inc., switched from Palm OS to webOS for their forthcoming devices.