Re: [NTLK] Happy Anniversary ! :-(

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:15 AM, <dograt@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Can you imagine how superlative the Newton might have been by now had
> development continued? Would it have looked an iPhone?

I think quite the opposite--I think it would look just like the
Palm--outdated, and on its last legs. It was already creaking--pushed
to the extremes internally, when Jobs killed it. I _know_ there used
to be an interview with a Newton engineer on the web (but I can't find
it any more), in which he described the hacked-up, patched-together
internals of the Newton OS, and how it would have required a complete
rewrite to make it work with more modenrn technologies--example--look
at the NIE stack. IT's slow and awkward. The fact that we, today have
such things as wifi, bluetooth and even ATA access is more a testimony
to the genious of some people _despite_ the OS, not of the OS's
strengths.

I believe that the Newton had to go--but the way it went was not
necessary, IMO, and the financial hurt it caused many, many people is
not easily overlooked/ignored/forgotten.

-- 
 -Jon Glass
Krakow, Poland
<jonglass@usa.net>
"I don't believe in philosophies. I believe in fundamentals." --Jack Nicklaus
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