From: Luiz Petroni (lpetroni_at_compassoarte.com.br)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2005 - 10:35:03 PST
Paul,
Sorry if this does not make any sense but, with the recent launch of
the Mac mini, I would like to know if a combo of the Mini + a small /
well mounted / compatible touchscreen + inkwell could work as a future
hardware/software platform for this project?
lpetroni
On 17 / Jan / 2005, at 15:15, Paul Guyot wrote:
> The only advantage of SDL over X11 is that it would run on Windows,
> something I really don't care about now (if ever). I have an
> interface working with both pen and output, I can run the program
> directly in the terminal, it's as much I need for both software
> development and improvements of Einstein Emulator.
>
> Considering the speed, even if I do X11 with millions of color, it
> definitely isn't what takes most CPU.
>
> Moreover, portability would require endianness agnosticism, which
> isn't the case yet. Apparently, flash 16 bits accesses are not endian
> safe and do not work on little endian platforms (namely linux x86),
> thus preventing NewtonOS from booting (the OS detects that there is a
> problem and reboots indefinitely).
>
> The emulator will probably remain a resource for software developers,
> not a way to access Newton data on a desktop computer. That's another
> reason why AppleTalk is more important than TCP/IP. With AppleTalk,
> we'll be able to connect the emulator to NTK. TCP/IP is only
> important for another part of the Einstein project, namely porting
> the OS to new platforms.
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