on 11/14/02 9:48 AM, brian.tiplady_at_astrazeneca.com at
brian.tiplady_at_astrazeneca.com wrote:
> This is getting more interesting. Remember the Newton is a virtual machine.
> Surely running Newton OS and applications on Palm or PocketPC hardware would
> be more to the point than running Linux on a MessagePad? I know you folks
> mostly don't like the smaller form factor of the palm size devices, but it
> could also run on the Tablet PC... Hopefully the situation where there are
> no pen devices in between the 3.5 inches of an iPAQ and 8.4 inches of a PC
> tablet can't last forever?
NewtOS on Linux...
Linux on TabletPC...
Any questions? ;-)
I think I'd get one just on the off chance I'd ever make it to a MacWorld
keynote. (can you imagine the look on Steve's face if he saw a rather large
glowing green Newt screen... RUNNING ON A **DELL** TABLET-PC??? I'm a
fairly rabid Mac user, but that would be SO worth it!!)
- Eric.
--Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)
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