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Howdy Walter! I'm Paul R. Potts. You were very generous with your time answering my endless questions about how NewtonScript worked under the hood back in the d
by paulrpotts 7y ago
Howdy Walter! I'm Paul R. Potts. You were very generous with your time answering my endless questions about how NewtonScript worked under the hood back in the day, and I still remember that. It got me into Scheme, Dylan, Common Lisp, and basically widened my world view a lot, and led to me doing several different projects in the nineties with embedded interpreters (Kawa under Java, etc.) These days I am a senior embedded developer. You described Landon Dyer as a "very careful programmer" for the way he wrote the flash card drivers, and I still remember that, and try to apply that to drivers for SPI, EEPROM devices, DACs, and ADCs.
Anyway not really a question... just glad to hear you are still around and kicking and thanks for the inspiration!
- wrs 7y agoHi Paul! Good to hear you’re doing well and that the inspiration has lasted this long. :) Yes, Landon was handed the job of implementing transactional storage on NOR Flash memory, which nobody had ever heard of, while bearing in mind that the battery could be taken out at any moment. As I recall, he just sort of went off and quietly did that (aside from the faint sounds of him banging his head on his desk). And I don’t remember ever hearing of lost data on a Newton.