News about Einstein!
 

There's some exciting news about Einstein, the Newton emulator/virtualiser, developed by Paul Guyot.

At the recent WorldWide Newton Conference (in Tokyo this year) he not only announced the GPL-isation of Einstein, now OpenEinstein, but also several interesting improvements. Also worthwhile to remember is that both the Nokia 770 and the N800 figure prominently among the targeted devices.

The PDF of his WWNC presentation is here:

http://kallisys.com/files/newton/Ein...2007Slides.pdf

As of now, this news hasn't filtered down to his website, http://www.kallisys.com/, yet (it normally takes some time before it gets updated; he is a very busy man indeed).

It also appears that the work on Relativity (the infrastructure/subsystem that makes the emulated Newton use all of the host system's hardware, and -- amazingly -- apparently also vice-versa! (so that one might use the Newton's handwriting recognition in the host's native operating system)) is progressing nicely.

Interested people might want to consider starting to stock up on Newton MessagePads, as you need the ROM of a working, late model, Newton to use OpenEinstein legally. Who knows, in a couple of months[*] we might be able to ditch Nokia and shoddy firmware upgrades and have once again a real Personal Digital Assistant.
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[*] Yes, I'm joking about the timeline. Then again, Paul claimed that after putting the GPL on OpenEinstein, within two days he and Matthias Melcher had a working port of Cygwin/X11 running on the Windows version of the emulator, and a Cygwin/Native GUI (with FLTK) the next day. So maybe things might go a lot faster than I think/fear. BTW, don't ask me about these things, I used copy-paste a lot in this footnote. :rolleyes: