Haha, I was just poking at my old BB too. I miss that thing, it was pretty nice when hooked up to a BES. The iPhone has been the only device I ever liked better, and even then not every aspect. With RIM all but defunct I’d love to see the BB OS source be released some day too. Of course it’d be most interesting combined with its supporting ecosystem software like BES and whatever they ran on the RIM side.
Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 29, 2023, at 7:01 PM, Wayne S via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > 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
