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Newton?
Authored by: slytle on Sep 10, '02 07:47:52AM

I have a Newton and Inkwell seems almost exactly like it (although it's been a while since I have used it.)

That's the neat thing about the RISC chip that was in the Newton. The same software could be recompiled for the Mac. I'm sure that they have made some improvements, but that gave them a good starting point. It's almost always easier to use existing code than to write from scratch.

I think that Inkwell is a sign of things to come (an Inkwell "Newton" Based Cell Phone - - who wants to run with that rumor..... I'm a reliable source.... I had a Newton.... ) ;)



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Newton?
Authored by: ajmas on Sep 10, '02 01:31:53PM

Most of the recognition code would have been written in C/C++ and would have been full of AI algorithms. The only thing that would have to be changed is the input/output surrounding the recognition code.



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Newton?
Authored by: sfleming on Sep 14, '02 08:30:08PM

Don't know if they ported the Newton code or not... that was designed for an entirely different processor (StrongARM), and most of the team has been dispersed. But I *hope* they did!

Yes, the original Newton was a joke (I owned one), but once they gave it decent computing power (Newton 2000/2100), it was EXTRAORDINARILY accurate. Fast enough that I could take notes in meetings in realtime.

I wish some Palm licensee would build a PalmOS device with the Newton's form factor. (Okay, a bit thinner.) I miss it.



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