Re: [NTLK] will Palm's ARM plans give Newton a new hardware lease on life?

From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent_daudelin_at_fanniemae.com)
Date: Thu Jul 26 2001 - 16:33:40 EDT


On Thursday, July 26, 2001, at 04:30 PM, Jeff Knee wrote:

> To any techno wizards out there, do you suppose Palm's plans
> to put their future OS on the ARM processor, will also let
> the Newton OS be placed on future hardware meant for the
> Palm? Would it be very difficult, such as an emulator maybe?

That would be very difficult, as most PDAs have their OS coming in ROM.
Then, there is the particular hardware that might not be compatible with
the Newton, as it is right now. Finally, nobody has the source to modify
the Newton OS, so that task would be almost impossible.

-Laurent.

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