[NTLK] Einstein, last call

[Michael Sheflin]

All good. I'm not aware of those versions?

I might have posted a picture in 2009/2010 when I lived in Cairo of me
using NPDS to serve an image of Arabic on my MP2100, but it was just a
drawing - not text.

On Sun, Oct 25, 2026, 1:20 PM DoctorClu <doctorclu at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh?   Well first off sorry you didn't get any response then.  By that
> point in 2015 I was mostly off the list and just casually using my
> Newton as a NPDS Server <https://tracker.newtonrulez.com/> as I didn't
> use the Newtons for much at that point.
>
> But glad it was able to help that dream become a reality.  Adding fonts
> to Newton is one thing, but the right to left support, interesting.  I
> thought there were some middle Eastern Newtons before with arabic in
> times past?
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> >/*Michael Sheflin *mentioned how he implemented Arabic in 2008 and all
> />/that it took to do that, and how It took Claude maybe an hour or two.
> />/Not so much Claude, but an extensive database of people like Michael
> />/that worked those items out, providing the structure for Ai to go on.
> />/Michael's effort, and the effort of every programmer are part of that
> />/solution now. And those efforts are still appreciated by myself and
> />/others in this hobby. />//>//Slight clarification - and also, I'm an
> attorney and not an engineer so I
> definitely did not have the ability to do it myself 18 years ago.
>
> I discussed the *possibility* of implementing Arabic.  When I messaged the
> list in 2015, nobody was interested and most likely I don't think we would
> have been capable of doing so anyway. Claude did it in about an hour, using
> a neural net on publicly available Arabic handwriting sources.  Claude had
> no problem implementing right-to-left text output.  AI has taken over the
> legal world very rapidly as well.  It's pretty scary.
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