From: rpatel_at_accelrys.com
Date: Tue Feb 04 2003 - 01:08:19 PST
Hi,
>Imagine a Newton like application residing on your desktop, iPaq, web
>page.
In a way HWR is almost a red herring - if you could get the newton smarts
onto the web / desktop then you'd be 99% there with the functionality.
So I guess you'd need some object db underlying everything and some
smarts to hang it all together.
Its interesting that Mitch Kapors 'chandler'
http://www.osafoundation.org/our_product_desc.htm,
and a couple of desktop applications (one OS X & the other X-platform)
whose names
escape me but they allow you to arbitrarily link useful bits of
information from a variety
of different places. They seem to be standalone applications but if they
were web
enabled (like a super wiki web).
It could either be a server based tool for multiple users or a desktop
tool for
a single user (similar to Dave Winers rss 'radio' application).
I guess a small platform neutral web server and application code (java,
python ?) would
run on a PDA or Tablet too.
Hmmmm brain bursting with too many ideas - pity I can't program to save
myself :-)
Hope list members will forgive the digression but one of the neat things
about the
list is the idea/paradigm of the Newt and how to keep the concepts alive
rather
than the just the old hardware/software which will eventually stop
functioning.
Raj.
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