Re: [NTLK] MessagePad vs ThinkPad

From: James Elliott (rootbeeraddict_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Nov 01 2001 - 19:18:13 EST


What was this app that Tempelmann wrote?

-James

>AFAIK, nobody was ever able to make an IrDA connection from a NOS 2.1-based
>Newton to an Wintel PC. I don't know why, however. I do know that the NOS
>2.1-based Newton implement only the minimum required subset from the IrDA
>official API, just so that they can tell they are IrDA compatible. So, is
>this the reason of the problem? I don't know. I'm pretty sure that a good
>programmer would be able, with the time and a bit of documentation, to make
>the communication works between a Newton and an IrDA-equipped PC. Thomas
>Tempelmann did write a Macintosh/Windows application in RealBASIC that was
>able for the first time, on a Macintosh, to successfully talk to a Newton
>using IrDA (even Newton Connection Utilities on the Macintosh is unable to
>use IrDA!).
>
>So, that's pretty much the sad state of IrDA communication with the Newton
>right now, unfortunately...
>
>-Laurent.

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