From: Richard Kilpatrick (dmc12_at_btconnect.com)
Date: Thu Mar 31 2005 - 10:07:05 PST
On 31 Mar 2005, at 10:48, James Nichols wrote:
> Okay - apparently some lucky poster over at macrumors.com has several
> clear plastic apple prototypes and what appears to be a mac-tablet
> based on the Duo line of subnotebooks apple produced back in the 90's:
>
> http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=115563
>
> The guy claims that it's HWR was based on the Newton, and that it was
> "faster" because it started out with roughly 150k words and ran on an
> 68040 making it faster than the newtons. Well, the 68040s in that era
> ranged from what, 25mhz to 66mhz? I highly doubt that this thing would
> outperform a mp2x00 machine for HWR speed.
Duo = 1993/4. At which point a Newton was what, 20MHz ARM?
So yeah, 'faster' is quite likely.
Richard
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