Finishing up The BB and Palm and Treo were faster and far more usable that the Newton.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:59, Wayne S <wayne.su...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I used a newton and still have it a box. It was heavy and very slow. > Graffiti didn’t work very well either. Microsoft came put with their first > notepad running Win/NT a few years after that but it was slow too. I think > Newton was just ahead of it’s time. The cpu’s needed to run it efficiently > had not been invented yet. > The Treo and the Blackberry > > Sent from my iPhone > >>> On Aug 29, 2023, at 18:46, Grant Taylor via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> >>> wrote: >>> On 8/29/23 7:28 PM, David Arnold wrote: >>> Some of you might recall that Apple released a series of machines based on >>> the Newton OS in the early 1990s. >> >> ACK >> >> How do Palm Pilot's compare to the Newton? >> >> I had someone I respect and trust make a lot of comparisons between a Palm >> T3 (?) I used to carry and Newtons. He was even opening programs in a some >> sort of editor and comparing things. I distinctly remember him saying that >> he thought there was some relationship between the Newton and Palm. But >> I've never seen nor heard anything to corroborate this. >> >> >> >> -- >> Grant. . . . >> unix || die
