[NTLK] Newton Ux

[Dennis Swaney]

If the Newton hadn't been abandoned, NewtonOS would probably be very close
to iOS today.

Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney

"I think, therefore I Mac"

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 8:29 AM, Forrest <newton_phoenix at mindspring.com>
wrote:

> Well, this brings up a thought-provoking question: is there a point in the
> future when we will choose to abandon the original Newton OS in favor of a
> (greatly) improved version?
>
> In other words, will we soon choose to run only Einstein (or some
> derivative) instead of the original Newton OS because it offers more
> features, speed, etc.?
>
> In a way, this is already happening. While years ago, some on NTLK
> lamented longer messages and content unfriendly to downloading email on the
> Newton itself (such as HTML links); the argument was that one of the joys
> of using the Newton was receiving email from NTLK. Such content/length made
> that less and less viable.
>
> I still enjoy reading email on my MP, but it is becoming more and more of
> a challenge. I'm not suggesting that we do away with links or other things
> that impede that process; just that we have moved away from using the
> Newton for such things.
>
> Might we (eventually) also move away from the original platform in other
> ways as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Forrest
>
> Sent from my T-Mobile iPhone 6 Plus
>
> > On Mar 13, 2017, at 4:00 PM, Grant Hutchinson <grant at splorp.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >> On 2017-03-13, at 4:41 PM, Daniel Parnell wrote:
> >>
> >> If we got enough people coding away to add unimplemented functions then
> it could be done, but I agree, it’s a huge job!
> >
> > That's a perfect application of the infinite monkey theorem.
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
> >
> > g.
> >
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