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Newton OS running on Sharp Zaurus at Worldwide Newton Conference 2006

88206431 3919b62d0e m Newton OS running on Sharp Zaurus at Worldwide Newton Conference 2006Held in San Francisco, California directly following Macworld Expo on January 13 through to the 15, 2006, the Worldwide Newton Conference included a presentation by Paul Guyot of Kallisys in which he demonstrated Einstein, a Newton OS emulator for Linux-based PDAs with X11 support. Guyot’s presentation (PDF) recapped Einstein’s development from its slow and buggy start as an emulator on Mac OS X to its current incarnation as a slow, buggy emulator running on his Sharp Zaurus SL5500. Though he says the new version run seven times faster than the previous see foresees greater speed improvements and even color in Einstein’s future.

More info here and a nice pic here.

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Curator of the Newton Museum sells collection on eBay

76146584 42f093fa65 m Curator of the Newton Museum sells collection on eBayNewton Museum curator, John Venzon, is selling off most of his collection of Apple Newton MessagePads. A collection so vast it includes “one of every Newton ever made plus every developer scrap of paper, software and manual.”

If you are interested in owning a multitude of pieces of Apple history, this eBay auction is one you should not pass up. It all ends December 26th, 2005 at 5pm PST.

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Splorp.com’s Newton-based web server serves its 200,000th customer

Grant Hutchinson from the blog Slorp.com just announced that his Newton-based web server just tallied its 200,000th hit. The Newton web serving community works its magic using Newton Personal Data Sharing (NPDS).

Congratulations Grant on your feat of geek strength and endurance!

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