The Newton has a few minor bugs in the operating system (I know, I have one),
but it is a very versitile little beast with an incredible vision behind it.
And with many of the largest hi-tech companies in world licensing it's
technology.
So far as development on the Newton. I have the Newton Toolkit. It is very
easy to set up application and share data among different apps due to the
fact that all apps basically share a common database with a set of basic
predefined datatypes. There is no need for what you would call a file system
in the traditional sense. For Applications that are appropriate for a PDA,
NewtonScript is near ideal. It has a simple Draw and script interface,
somewhat similar to HyperCard. To put it in perspective for you DOS heads,
the closest thing you have is probably VisualBasic. But, Newton Script is
truly Object oriented and very flexible in its data handling.
Again, I just don't think Radio Shack can pull it off!Subj: Zoomer will do
well...