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	Karel Jansens	2008-04-02 , 23:16
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Originally Posted by tabletrat

OK, there is something I can agree with on all counts. I have never tried the open Einstein, although I did write to steve jobs once asking if he would release the source code to the newton.
You will be suprised to know he didn't reply.

I don't think he can. For one thing, NewtonOS relied heavily on the Voyager chipset, and apparently the sources for that piece of technology have been lost. What Paul Guyot (and now others) have been trying mostly, is a software reconstruction of that chip.

Also, while the Rosetta (printed) handwriting recognizer was an Apple product, ParaGraph (the cursive recognizer) wasn't and isn't. ParaGraph is now property of PhatWare and lives on as PenOffice for Windows (I believe Rosetta has been unearthed -- to keep the metaphore afloat -- as Inkwell).

And finally, Jobs is Satan, and will never reply to mails about Newton.

On the terminology: OpenEinstein is the virtual NewtonOS itself; Relativity are all the hooks into "normal" hardware peripherals and file systems.

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