[cctalk] Re: NewtonOS

On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:59, Wayne S <wayne.sudol(a)hotmail.com> wrote: I used a newton and still have it a box. It was heavy and very slow. Graffiti didn’t work very well either. Microsoft came put with their first notepad running Win/NT a few years after that but it was slow too. I think Newton was just ahead of it’s time. The cpu’s needed to run it efficiently had not been invented yet. The Treo and the Blackberry Sent from my iPhone >> On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:46, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: >> On 8/29/23 7:28 PM, David Arnold wrote: >> Some of you might recall that Apple released a series of machines based on the Newton OS in the early 1990s. > > ACK > > How do Palm Pilot's compare to the Newton? > > I had someone I respect and trust make a lot of comparisons between a Palm T3 (?) I used to carry and Newtons. He was even opening programs in a some sort of editor and comparing things. I distinctly remember him saying that he thought there was some relationship between the Newton and Palm. But I've never seen nor heard anything to corroborate this. > > > > -- > Grant. . . . > unix || die