SYMBIAN
HISTORY
In 1980, the British company Psion(Potter Scientific Instrument) was founded by David Potter. In 1984, Psion launched Psion organiser, the world’s first handheld computer. In 1987, Psion released a preemptive multitasking operating system, (Electronic Piece of Cheese) EPOC: 16-bit /written in C / intel 8086 chip. In 1997, Psion Series 5 based on EPOC32 :32-bit written in C++.
On 24 June 1998, Symbian Ltd was formed as a partnership between Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola and Psion EPOC was renamed Symbian OS.
Symbian is a open-source (EPL) mobile operating system (OS) and computing platform design for smartphone and currently maintained by Accenture. It offer a high-level of integration with communication and personal information management (PIM) functionality. Symbian OS combines middleware with wireless communication through an integrated mailbox and the integration of Java and PIM functionality as agenda and contact. The Symbian OS is open for third-party development by independent software vendor, enterprise IT department, network operator and Symbian OS licences.
As the descendent of Psion’s EPOC, Symbian Ltd was known as the original developer of Symbian OS and run it exclusively on ARM processor. In 2009, Symbian Ltd established the Symbian Foundation to make Symbian platform available open resource and royalty-free. Hence, Symbian OS was used by many major product such as Samsungs, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and ultimately Nokia. It was the most popular smartphone OS on worldwide average until in 2010 Symbian Ltd announced that the Symbian Foundation would ramp down its activities as a result of changes in global economic and condition when the mobile OS was taken by Android.
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...ecute-in-place’(XIP) and re-entrancy as well as design for devices with only solid-state disk
• Sophisticated graphical design : SIBO supported reactive repainting of windows and overlapping windows, in an age of tiled interface
• An event-driven programming model
• Cross-platform development : the developer’s mindset was more that embedded system engineering than the standard micro-computer or PC model.
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2. http://developer.nokia.com/community/wiki/Symbian_OS_Communication_Architecture
3. http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/49364/platform-dependent
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