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I worked with some people on a Newton project. This was way before the product was officially released. I was 17 or so and exposed to this crazy highly dynamic
by st3fan 18y ago
I worked with some people on a Newton project. This was way before the product was officially released. I was 17 or so and exposed to this crazy highly dynamic programming environment. Unlike anything we youngsters had worked with before.
If I remember correctly we got two kinds of development hardware from Apple. One was a fat Quadra ('040) with an ARM NuBUS card and the MCL development environment. It got us started with code although there was no device to run this on.
Later on we got a Newton prototype. Real hardware. It was very bare. Basically a PCB with the LCD/touch display on top of it and connected to another Quadra with a flat ribbon cable. I remember we could run the real NewtonOS on that. The prototype was called the 'Bunwarmer' I think.
The Newton was awesome. Too bad it was killed.