>I'm thinking seriously about purchasing a Newton. I'm currently using a
>Handspring Dexluxe with 8MB RAM and an 8 MB memory card. I work in health
>care, so being able to run drug information programs is A MUST. In looking
>at several sites on the web, it appears most of these programs are no longer
>made for the Newton. I know the Newton OS is kind of similar to Palm OS,
>any chance of running a Palm OS program on the Newton?
>
>Many thanks.....
>
First of all, the Newton OS is NOTHING like the Palm. Its far superior.
There is no way to run Palm programs on the Newton. However, one of the
Newton's biggest markets was health care and many programs were written
to run on it. You would need to define much better what you mean by
"running drug information programs". If you need current databases for
drugs, that's likely to be out of the question. If you intend to enter
information into a drug database, that could be possible and many
programs are stored for medical use on Newton software servers, the
biggest being www.unna.org. Try this directory:
http://www.unna.org/unna/applications/medical/.
Mark Ross
markr13_at_comcast.net
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