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Apparently several Austrian women offered themselves as surrogate mothers for children of Otzi (the iceman from the Austrian/Italian mountain border), primarily because of his 'racial purity'.
As for other hominids - I'm sure somebody would do it - for the right price.
But then I doubt we have _complete_ Neanderthal DNA from bones.
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Someone _could_ put PalmOS on a wristwatch, but they _couldn't_ give me the OS source code. Better a well-known GPLd OS than yet another psuedo-OS.
If you can put a real OS on it (albeit slimmed down) then why not do it? Later, when watches support 1MHz CPUs and plug-in SVGA eye-pieces, we'll be thankful they did.
And we can hack it to our heart's content.
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I'd have liked to hear more from Woz on this one. But here's my take on one aspect.
New PCs were still upwards/backwards compatible with existing software. People could upgrade incrementally.
Apple screwed their Apple ][ userbase by bringing out the Mac with no upgrade path. Years later they brought out an Apple ][ emulator card for some of the Macs, but it was too little, too late.
For instance, when Acorn released the world's first 32-bit RISC personal computer, they had a software emulator for their previous BBC computers, providing a vital bridge from old to new.
Hence the popularity now of the emulation scene. We've finally found keys for suitcases we packed years ago. Mine is a handheld Apple ][. Apple didn't build it, so I had to code it.
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Apparently several Austrian women offered themselves as surrogate mothers for children of Otzi (the iceman from the Austrian/Italian mountain border), primarily because of his 'racial purity'.
As for other hominids - I'm sure somebody would do it - for the right price.
But then I doubt we have _complete_ Neanderthal DNA from bones.
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If you can put a real OS on it (albeit slimmed down) then why not do it? Later, when watches support 1MHz CPUs and plug-in SVGA eye-pieces, we'll be thankful they did.
And we can hack it to our heart's content.
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New PCs were still upwards/backwards compatible with existing software. People could upgrade incrementally.
Apple screwed their Apple ][ userbase by bringing out the Mac with no upgrade path. Years later they brought out an Apple ][ emulator card for some of the Macs, but it was too little, too late.
For instance, when Acorn released the world's first 32-bit RISC personal computer, they had a software emulator for their previous BBC computers, providing a vital bridge from old to new.
Hence the popularity now of the emulation scene. We've finally found keys for suitcases we packed years ago. Mine is a handheld Apple ][. Apple didn't build it, so I had to code it.
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