Aaron J Reichow <reic0024 at d.umn.edu> is widely believed to have written:

> On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> 
> > As is their want, Apple put in a tremendous amount of work on UI design for
> > the Newton to ensure easy and consistent stylus-oriented operation.  It is
> > worthwhile to learn from it.  I do believe that had Apple kept their hand in
> > the game, benefiting from the advances that allow today's PDAs to be
> > smaller, faster and cheaper, today's Newton would be a leading PDA.
> 
> Hands down, the Newton was (and still is, which is sad) the best thing
> doing as far as the PDA is concerned.
I agree about that most emphatically. My last Newt was/is a 130 so I
never got to experience the advantages of the SA version's speed, but it
was pretty damned good. If you could get NewtOS on iPaq hardware things
would be pretty good.

I look forward to seeing what you manage to come up with. A portable
version would be nice to have around. If there had a decent work-alike
application for desktop machines I think it might have made the Newt
more successful.

tim
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