From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Wed Mar 17 2004 - 11:55:40 PST
Salvatore Denaro wrote:
> Any idea if this new Newton will support the new Amiga OS?
>
> <sarcasm>
>
> As much as I'd like to see it, I very much doubt that anyone _could_ produce
> a new Newton. The Newton dev folks have been cast to the four winds. The
> tools used to build the OS may not run on any existing OS. The custom ASICs
> are nontrivial and probably not easy to recreate at this time.
Except for that last point, you are right :) Actually most of the "stuff"
from the Voyager chipset was integrated into the SA-1100 chip. See the datasheet:
http://netwinder.oregonstate.edu/pub/netwinder/docs/intel/datashts/27808706.pdf
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