The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware

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The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware

Posted by timothy on Monday October 4, 2004 @12:26PM from the hypothetically dept.

GraWil writes "As previously reported, the Apple Newton refuses to die! The Worldwide Newton Conference 2004 has wrapped up (photos) and, thanks to Paul Guyot, there is real hope for an emulator. His talk, titled 'Newton never dies, It only gets new hardware,' describes and shows the Einstein Emulator, that will eventually allow the Newton OS to be built and run on top of Unix. Will your next Linux PDA boot Newton OS next year?"

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Newton on Amiga by Shaman · 2004-10-04 12:32 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm holding out for a version of NewtonOS that runs under version 3.0 of AmigaOS running under emulation on my Atari ST.

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1. Re:Newton on Amiga by nxtr · 2004-10-04 13:15 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Will that run Duke Nukem: Forever?
2. Re:Newton on Amiga by Thing+1 · 2004-10-04 15:41 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Well, if you mean "will it take forever to run Duke Nukem?"
  Yes.
  
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3. Re:Newton on Amiga by smithmc · 2004-10-04 16:16 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  I'm holding out for a version of NewtonOS that runs under version 3.0 of AmigaOS running under emulation on my Atari ST.
  
  Not geeky enough. You should be running an Atari ST emulator on a hacked Xbox running Linux.
  
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Damn. by mrchaotica · 2004-10-04 12:34 · Score: 4, Funny

For a second I thought they meant a new Newton from Apple : (

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Is it OpenSource? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 12:38 · Score: 1, Funny

I cannot find Einstein anywhere. I'm a newton user and dabble in coding apps. Is Einstein open source? If so, where is the code?
let id die... by toxickiwi · 2004-10-04 12:51 · Score: 5, Funny

What do they mean? 'Newton never dies, It only gets new hardware,' mine always died after about an hour of use then I had to change batteries The only new hardware they could add is a solar panel..
The Einstein Emulator by tangent3 · 2004-10-04 12:57 · Score: 3, Funny

...and in a few years the Einstein Emulator (also known as Einstein Emulator Special Version) will become obselete with bugs and head towards death only to be replaced by the Einstein Emulator General Version which solves most of the bugs. Some bugs remain, however, which were only resolved after the Quantum Plugin was released.
Re:My question is... by BlowChunx · 2004-10-04 14:07 · Score: 2, Funny

I think the ultimate irony would be running it on a Dell Axim. I hope that one thought keeps Michael Dell having dreams of men in jeans and black turtle necks chasing him...
What's that smell by LS · 2004-10-04 14:54 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm not big on toilet humor, but while flipping through the Newton Conference photos, I'm just wondering who farted...

LS

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Re:Fans of the Newton acknowledge it's perfection by istewart · 2004-10-04 18:00 · Score: 2, Funny

They won't rebut you. Your UID number is too low.
Re:My question is... by TelJanin · 2004-10-04 18:55 · Score: 2, Funny

Poor dragon...
Darwin, Newton... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-04 20:45 · Score: 1, Funny

Does everything that comes from Apple have to be named after some heretic? God, even the logo is a forbidden fruit! Seriously, as a Roman Catholic I find it highly offensive and as a scientist who has just started to follow the recent study on ID science I think naming products after Darwin forgetting that his theory is only a theory is just plain stupidity and ignorance of modern scientific research.
Re:Pictures by Anonymous Coward · 2004-10-05 02:02 · Score: 1, Funny

Is it just me or is it apparently impossible to find a good looking woman at a Newton Forever conference?
Re:Fans of the Newton acknowledge it's perfection by 16K+Ram+Pack · 2004-10-05 03:23 · Score: 4, Funny

I wonder what you get it you write "Developers! Developers! Developers!" into a Windows Pocket PC?