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The Newton O.S. Creeps Toward New Hardware

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. t4c frosty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Whenever I have any kind of sex, whether it's with a woman or by myself, I have a hard time achieving orgasm. I'm not sure if it's normal but the head of my penis burns and I have to strain, and I mean until I'm blue in the face, to see any semen come out. And when it does, it is in very small amounts. This greatly reduces the pleasure because the end of my orgasm feels like work. Is this normal? Is there a way to improve my situati

    TEENS 4 CHRIST > *

    1. Re:t4c frosty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I think this article illustrates something waaaay more important than the Newton: The hygiene of typical Macintosh users.

  2. A serious question for you all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    WTF happened to Jon Katz?

    1. Re:A serious question for you all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Taco dismissed JonKatz with prejudice after this article made Slashdot more of a laughingstock than it usually is with the web community.

    2. Re:A serious question for you all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti

    3. Re:A serious question for you all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Thank you.

    4. Re:A serious question for you all... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      holy shit, i'm so glad i followed that link. that is quite possibly the funniest article EVER on slashdot.

      seriously, read it, it explains a lot about the katz fiasco.

      heh, commodore 64.

  3. Pictures by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Put the camera down!! When you have pictures of people taking pictures and getting directions you know that you have nothing worth shooting!!

  4. What link to I click on? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    TooManyLinksException

    Right, there's a picture of a dude pointing at a screen with a faded image on it ... is it relevant? What is it?

  5. Re:Christ, it refuses to die. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't think I was mildew in my OS ... and how do you port mildew anyway?

  6. Re:Newton on Amiga by Simonetta · · Score: 1, Offtopic

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

    I'm still waiting for my Timex-Sinclair 1000 emulator that runs on my Commodore 64.

    There's so much that I've been planning to do and I'm been waiting for such a long time.

    However, if you have Atari ST programs that you want to run on the Windows PC, the STeem emulator works quite well. There were a lot of MIDI synthesizer programs published only for the Atari ST. For example, voice editors for the various tone modules that were state-of-the-art twelve years ago and are still being bought and sold for moderate sums on eBay.