>I don't see anybody yet talking about what seems like the most obvious
>thing to me: Wince toys. There's some pretty nice hardware runnning that
>pathetic OS out there. A lot of it now has strongarm CPUs at around
>200MHz. Many of the devices can run NetBSD. I have yet to find a Wince
>toy in the Newton form factor with two PCMCIA slots of any kind, which is
>a significant problem for me, but probably won't be for most
>others.
This too is a possibility - wince with netbsd, gnustep, and python
bindings for gnustep. And it would be a PDA too....
>GNUton is, IMHO, the wrong direction to go. I do not think that being
>able to directly run all the old Newton stuff is worthwhile right
>now. The effort invovled for binary compatibility is high. I would much
>prefer to see something nominally newton-like but achievable and with some
>of the Newton's problems solved. I don't mean to criticise the work
>that's been done; what I've read about the project sounds really good and
>very impressive. It's the concept of total compatibility with Newton
>stuff that makes me think a huge amount of effort will need to be expended
>towards an end that seems less than essential.
I concur. I just couldn't see myself being part of such effort either.
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