on 14/07/01 12:40, Oliver Brose at oliver.brose_at_t-online.de wrote:
>> While I agree that the Newton OS is phenomenal, I wouldn't be so quick to
>> dismiss OS X. Have you tried it at all. Even though it is in it's early
>> stages, it is very nice. Rather than shutting down my computer, I put it to
>> sleep, and it wakes up just as fast as my Newton does.
>
> If Apple manages to run OS X on a PDA they'll receive *screaming, jumping,
> kicking* ovations.
> The thing is way to slow at the current state, but it will work out.
> Putting it on a PDA would mean *major* cut-downs.
[snip!]
I'll just jump to make a little comment. Running OS X on a PDA is quite a
general statement. IMHO, it doesn't mean that you would get Aqua and
everything else that makes what you see when running OS X. Actually, I think
that if Apple was coming up with a PDA running OS X, that would probably
mean the Darwin's part of OS X, which is the very core of the operating
system. They would be foolish to try to run anything looking like Aqua on
the top of it. Due to its dynamic object-oriented nature, they could easily
craft a well-tailored interface on the top of it. This would certainly
result in a fast, stable device.
-Laurent.
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