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Dylan was never on the Newton. The Newton team had two proposed products, Senior and Junior. Senior was gonna run Dylan, but they kept waiting on the Dylan te
by SeanLuke 4y ago
Dylan was never on the Newton. The Newton team had two proposed products, Senior and Junior. Senior was gonna run Dylan, but they kept waiting on the Dylan team to produce something usable, and it never happened. So they gave up on Senior, dumped the notion of using Dyan entirely, and finished Junior using NewtonScript to get the product out the door. That became the Newton.
- Apocryphon 4y agoYeah, that's what Walter Smith says: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400696
- wrs 4y agoIronically, I see my old comment has two autocorrect typos. :)
- p_l 4y agoI've read somewhat opposite account, that there was a complete Lisp/Dylan system available, but there were issues both political and hardware related that ultimately led to C++ (which was then hot new stuff still) being used with NewtonScript on top.