10 Aug
2006
10 Aug
'06
6:37 a.m.
Rumor has it that Dave McGuire may have mentioned these words:
Evan Koblentz wrote:
Well it's nice to see that the current Palm technology now has the
display resolution of the circa 1993 Newton. ;) [dave ducks]
[ Boot goes whizzing by Dave's head... and up here in Michigan, they're
*heavy* winter boots! ;-) ]
My nearly 5-year-old Sony Clie has a 480x320 screen w/256K colors. And yes,
it still has the Dragonball CPU in it, a smokin' 66Mhz.
Now if Radisys would allow an OS-9 port for it... it would be close to
*perfect*.
Oh, and it makes a *schweet* remote, too - no hacking involved.
Assuming I can keep getting batteries for it every 3 years, it'll prolly be
ontopic before I "upgrade." ;-) And something tells me I'll *still* be
hard-pressed to find a display as nice as what I have now.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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>>> Yeah, which means it actually has a useful display, rather than the
smattering of a few pixels that the Palm and their ilk have
The original Newton has a screen resolution of 336x240. My brand-new Treo
700p has a resolution of 320x320 -- physically it's smaller but hardly a
"smattering of a few pixels."