Sorry guys that is all I can say or I should not have said at all, don't
look for it too soon and don't expect in the "PDA" for you have grown to
love.
on 08/05/2000 02:38 AM, gopi@sloth.org at gopi@sloth.org wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Peter Apockotos wrote:
>
>> Apple will not sell the Newton asset, one reason is because the technology
>> is going to be recycled and that is all I can say.
>
> Is that a fact or an opinion?
>
> Personally, I think that it would be easier to take the concepts and ideas
> behind the Newton and create a new system than to try to update the
> existing stuff. What I really want is pre-emptive threading of some kind,
> though of course that would mean dealing with signifcant concurrency
> issues or doing various IPC tricks instead of the current easy to deal
> with stuff. But true multi-threading/tasking would be very useful IMHO.
>
> I think that something sitting on top of UN*X and doing newton-like stuff
> would be insanely cool. Just very difficult. The Newton group had a lot
> of really talented and forward-thinking engineers and CS theory
> geeks. Designing something like that would be a challenge. Anybody
> interested? :)
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