Whining will not help but recall facts is allowed.
I agree that Newton OS should be rewritten and Newton should receive a new
body. One could call it Newton's second life.
My wish list:
definitely 7-8" screen. Compare Irex with Sony?
AAA batteries
CF memory
PDF or jpeg
...
John
On 2/29/08 4:50 PM, "matthiasm" <mm@matthiasm.com> wrote:
>
> On 27.02.2008, at 00:19, Russell,Allen wrote:
>
>> Thanks for all your support Steve Jobs.
>
>
> Nah, whining won't help.
>
>
> It's ten years and in my book, this makes the Newton OS finally
> abondonware. What a great opportunity to use the programming interface
> (API, which btw. is publicly available with the NTK) and start
> rewriting some of the ROM code to not only make Einstein blazingly
> fast (100x at least), but also create our own OS that is compatible to
> Newton OS. It can be done and has been done many times before with
> other software (just try and count the MS-DOS clones out there).
>
> So what's new in Einstein?
>
>
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