Re: [NTLK] Another article critical of the Newton

From: L.W. Brown <lwb_at_mac.com>
Date: Fri Apr 06 2007 - 18:06:17 EDT

Actually, the written description was pretty complimentary of the
Newton, esp. in comparison to the IBM PCjr.

On 6. Apr, 2007, at 15:39, ccsccs7 wrote:

> "Here we nominate 21 of our favorite overhyped failures, presented
> in alphabetical order." — Quote from the head of the article. So
> they didn't pick out the Newton specifically
>
> Ed Kummel <tech_ed_at_yahoo.com> wrote: http://www.computerworld.com/
> comments/node/9012345
>
> Someone at Computerworld is rehashing the age old story of the
> "top whatever worst technologies". Lumping the Newt with the likes
> of MS BOB, the IBM PCJr and DIVX...of course the Newton takes the
> number one slot...
> Oh well...while it's a rehash of existing stories, it's an
> interesting read.

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