Kasper Jeppesen wrote:
> > NEWTONTALK Community
> > Instead of an EMULATOR what about a new "open" PLATFORM based on the
> > basic concepts (UI, Programming, FormFactor) of NEWTON and the
> > MESSAGEPAD??? There still is no real competition and there doesn't
> > appear to be anything coming...
>
> Ok.. here we go...
> I wrote a message to the list some time ago anouncing that I was commencing
> the design of a newton replacement pda.. My plan was to do this as an
> entertainment project for myself... and the maybe later let some other
> people help, but still maintain dictatorship over the whole thing =)
>
> Well it seems like people(including me) are now running in ten different
> directions for the future of their PDA... I have therefor decided to drop my
> egocentric dictatorship, and is hereby inviting anybody interested to join
> me...
>
> Before going any further, in the light of the current zac/palm discussions,
> let me for the record say that I am very serious and do concider myself
> quite capable too... But for those who need more info before joining heres a
> little bit about me and my experience :
> My name is Kasper Jeppesen, I'm 24 years old and live in denmark.
> I started programing logo on an Apple // in 1986, then evolved to pascal on
> an armstrad running cpm.
> During the early nineties i was heavely involved in the european amiga
> demoscene, programming in 68k assembler.
> From there i continued into C/C++ under Linux and BSD.
> I am currently writing my Masters thesis in Computer Science at the
> university of Aalborg denmark.
>
> If anybody has any additional questions to verify my seriousity (hmmm how do
> you spell that?) or capability, then please.. do post them, and i WILL
> answer them...
>
> Now on with the show! My opinion is that the PDA should be hardware
> independant.. our problem with the newton right now is that the platform is
> dying from a hardware perspective, certainly not a community/software
> problem... I propose that the new PDA is initially build fully in Personal
> Java...
> This will give us a wide range of hardware to run it on.
That's a good idea, however, maybe I'm missing something, but how, after getting
this platform concept out the door, are you going to have hardware to run it? Do
you mean porting it to any PDA platform available? I'm not sure, but that's seem
like a lot of work.
Basically, how this platform would be supported on different hardware?
-Laurent.
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