[NTLK] Simulating the Newton: new version!

[Daniel Parnell]

I have a local instance of Qwen 3.8 flash next running another reverse 
engineering project and while it is not anywhere near as fast as Claude 
it is getting the job done.

On 1/10/2026 5:20 pm, Vladislav Korotnev wrote:
> Well, not for many, only until they finally decide it's time to pay back
> their trillion dollar debts and jack up the token prices to their actual
> costs :P
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> The technology is fascinating, but everything that's hosted on some
> megacorps computer far away is bound to be a rug pull by definition, sadly.
>
> Unfortunately though at those rates independent compute just won't be a
> thing in the next decade.
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> // Ak.R.
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> On Thu, Oct 1, 2026, 16:07 Greg Toffer <gregtoffer at hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> It is frightening, but it’s also the reality today.
>> On the other hand, it means that we can now keep this old devices alive
>> for many years, since we don’t need dedicated software (or hardware)
>> developers to spend time figure them out, to do what AI can do in an hour
>> or less.
>>
>> Daniele
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>> Il giorno 1 ott 2026, alle ore 06:01, Grant Hutchinson <
>> newtontalkmessages at gmail.com> ha scritto:
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>>> On Sep 30, 2026, at 9:51 PM, Daniel Parnell <me at danielparnell.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I set Claude running last week to reverse engineer the whole Newton 2x00
>> ROM to the point where I can run pretty much any Newton software I want.
>>
>> I’m sorry if I sound like a curmudgeon, but this is frightening.
>>
>> g.
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