Re: [NTLK] NewtonOS on Palm

From: Roman Pixell (roman_at_pixell.net)
Date: Fri Oct 01 2004 - 00:45:41 PDT


On Sep 30, 2004, at 10:31 PM, Seb Payne wrote:

> XScale and ARM CPUs are more power efficient plus the XScale is a
> descendant of the StrongARM used the Newton MessagePads.

AFAIR, there was a problem with the current processors, since the use
little endian, whilst the newton ARM uses the big endian. i dont know
if paul guyot or simon bell can solve this in a simple way. however,
the formfactor of the zodiac for example is what most users would be
most comfortable with, i believe...

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