[NTLK] Geek Alert: NewtonOS

[Chris Browder]

This feels like a Newtonized version of "halt and catch fire" on the a AMC channel. 

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> On Jul 6, 2014, at 8:07 AM, Morgan Aldridge <morgant at makkintosshu.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Saturday, July 5, 2014, Matthias Melcher <mm at matthiasm.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> What does that mean for Einstein?
>> 
>> If I manage to implement this, we have enough code and knowledge to
>> translate the entire ROM into native code. This could even be automated,
>> generating convoluted, but working code (speed factor of 10, I would
>> assume). With the entire ROM in native code, we can use debuggers and all
>> the other nice tools to optimize whatever we feel is important in the code
>> (spped factor of 100 and more possible).
> 
> 
> This is excellent news. And, if you are able to automate the conversion of
> ROM to native code, that will make it _far_ easier for the rest of us
> developers to jump in and help rewrite them to make sense, be well
> commented, and be implemented uniquely to Einstein and therefore not be in
> copyright violation.
> 
> 
>> Thanks for reading my ramblings ;-)
> 
> Thanks for your continued delve into the ROM and work on Einstein!
> 
> 
> 
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