[NTLK] Love Notes ?2? Newton

Dan dan at dbdigitalweb.com
Wed Oct 23 15:01:09 PDT 2024


On 10/23/2024 3:49 PM, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk wrote:
>> On Oct 22, 2024, at 5:18 PM, Noah Leon <moosefuel at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> I’d love to document the process of contacting various people in the attempt to actually open source some of the Newton OS.
> 
> I mean, they’ve already released the source for MacPaint, QuickDraw, and Apple II DOS.
> 
> <https://computerhistory.org/blog/macpaint-and-quickdraw-source-code/>
> <https://computerhistory.org/blog/apple-ii-dos-source-code/>
> 
> Why not Newton OS?
> 
> g.

I agree.  Although I have a hunch they use some of it in the iOS.  Probably not much, but enough they don't want to open source Newton OS.

-Dan


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