1 can't resist: Cool as NewtOs is, it is not the most stable PDA-OS I have come across; that honour I still reserve for EP0C on the Psion Series 3xx: I've had a Series 3a for 6 years and in all that time it didn't restart _once_. NewtOs on average seems to freeze about once a week, about on par with EP0C on the Series 5. Not too bad, but better is possible.
On Tue 12 Feb 2002 Robert Benschop wrote:
>
> > Newton rocks. It's not as rigid as most modern OS's, because it's just not
> > an OS at all.
>
> I beg your pardon ?
>
> Now there's one argument against OSX and it's called Newton.
>
> An operating system as solid and intuitive with some equivalent to the
> Newton soup system (so that content can be searched and linked from all
> applications) now that would have been 'revolutionary'
> (or should I say evolutionary after the Newton ?)
>
> But from a businegs standpoint I can completely understand Apple, after the
> Newton and Copeland I guess they all were weary of something too far ahead.
>
>
> Robert Benschop
>
Karel Jansens
kareljansens@ tiscalinet.be
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