[NTLK] In layman's terms... (was: Developer news)

[Laurence W Brown]

To get improved speed & memory on the base NewtOS (even absent additional programs) is a magnificent dream—it’s still /the/ most elegant implementation of the many aspects of personal data. Today’s spoken interfaces (in my experience) are less useful than the first version of Newton handwriting conversion…

-L.W. Brown
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> On Mar 6, 2020, at 15:33, Victor Rehorst <victor at chuma.org> wrote:
> 
> We're making updates to development tools so that software for NewtonOS can be written on modern operating systems.
> …
> This is really important for Einstein development in particular - part of Einstein's code runs inside the "virtual Newton" device. That part has to be compiled with the Newton C++ tools.  Matthias came up with a way to run those tools on modern computers without needing a Classic MacOS setup.