[NTLK] Who doesn’t love a little Newton minutia?

[Abraham Limpo]

Lovely!

El mié, 3 jun 2026 a las 22:21, Grant Hutchinson via NewtonTalk (<
newtontalk at newtontalk.net>) escribió:

> I’ve been doing a few little updates to the Newton FAQ this week, mostly
> regarding the hardware specifications table. For one, I decided to separate
> the CPU type and processor speed into their own columns. While doing this,
> I decided to double check all of the speeds for both the ARM and StrongARM
> processors used in the various Newton devices.
>
> Well, did I ever find an interesting bit of minutia ...
>
> The processor speed of the StrongARM 110 used in the MessagePad 2000,
> MessagePad 2100, and several third-party devices was generally agree upon
> to be roughly 162 MHz. However, going back through various specification
> sheets, archived websites, and other documents, that speed was reported to
> be all over the place.
>
> So, being a persnickety completionist, I added a footnote to the
> specifications table to document and explain what I found.
>
> The footnote reads:
>
> “Most official Apple specification sheets including Apple Service Source
> (Late 1997), as well as Wikipedia, state the speed of the StrongARM
> processor as 162 MHz. Other sources, including the Newton Technology
> Journal (January 1997) and some Apple specification sheets state the speed
> as 161.9 MHz, possibly indicating that the number was later rounded up for
> marketing purposes. Another edition of Apple Service Source (Early 1997)
> erroneously states the speed as 167.9 MHz, which is likely a typo. An
> archived version of the Newton Inc. website states the processor speed for
> the MessagePad 2000 as 160 MHz, which also feels like a typo. For the
> record, Frank Gründel’s NewtTest reports the processor speed of a
> MessagePad 2100 as 162.2 MHz.”
>
> <https://newtonfaq.com/newton-faq-hardware.html#IIA1e-11>
>
> Whew.
>
> g.
>
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