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NewtonOS Running on Linux PDA

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the platforms-never-die dept.

Seb Payne writes "At the WWNC 2006, Adam Tow has reported that Einstein, the NewtonOS emulator is now working on a Sharp Zaurus Linux PDA, showing future for our favourite green friend. Although it is not production quality, could this bring a future to the Newton platform?"

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  1. Is this for real? by coderpunk · · Score: 0, Troll

    This soundslike an interesting hack, but the website leaves alot to be desired. There's a tar.gz download but no explanation of how to get it up and running on a Zaurus. Also, it would seem to me that this is going to be pretty damn slow, emulating the Newton (a 68k series processor I think?) on an ARM running Linux at around 200MHz. OpenZaurus already is a bit slowon my SL-5500. I'd think you'd do better to port the Newton 'Look and Feel' to OpenZaurus or one of the other Linux PDA platforms.