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 [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/ NSPR(NetScape Portable Runtime)] is the most underlying component of the [http://blog.mozilla.com/schrep/2007/05/16/mozilla-platform/ Mozilla platform]. If we want to port FireFox or other Mozilla platform products onto a new OS, this is a good start.
-[http://www.symbian.com Symbian OS] is the most widely used OS for smart phones worldwide. Because of its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#History long evolution history], makers of Symbian OS had many concerns on mobile devices in old days when devices are quite different from a desktop computers. For example their OS is run in ROM instead of hard disk, also their available memory is quite limited. So for quite a long time, developing applications or large mid-ware frameworks is a pain.
+[http://www.symbian.com Symbian OS] is the most widely used OS for smart phones worldwide. Because of its [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbian_OS#History long evolution history], makers of Symbian OS had many concerns on mobile devices in old days when devices are quite different from desktop computers. For example their OS is run in ROM instead of hard disk, also their available memory is quite limited. So for quite a long time, developing applications or large mid-ware frameworks is a pain.
 With the improvements of mobile devices' resource, they have less and less differences from a desktop/laptop PC. Since the second half of 2007, Nokia and Symbian provided its Symbian OS developers a framework called [http://www.forum.nokia.com/main/resources/technologies/open_c/index.html Open C], with help of "Open C" Symbian OS developers could treat the OS as a POSIX environment, although limitations exist.