... he¹

To avoid the clumsy he/she construction, throughout this article we will assume a male protagonist. In other articles in this series we may assume the same or opposite gender.

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... Network.²

Formerly known as the RAM network

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... PDAs³

As of February 2001

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... exception.⁴

As expected, Palm did deploy a closed solution subsequent to the initial publication of this paper in February 2001. At the time of current writing in November 2002, Palm still has no open solution.

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