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[edit] hardware models

What different models of the Newton were there? What are the physical dimensions of various models. Funkyj 66.129.225.151 (talk) 20:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

For some obscure reason, there is a separate article here: MessagePad —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mwaisberg (talk • contribs) 09:07, 31 December 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Dylan section needs review

i noticed that the section on the dylan programming language says that one reason for lack of acceptance was it's lisp-like syntax, which would make sense if versions of dylan made available to developers actually had a lisp-like syntax, but it didn't, mostly because the designers of dylan realized that lisp-like syntax probably wouldn't go over well.

the authors of this article would be aware of this had they bothered to read the wikipedia ariticle on dylan! (or nay other history of the language.)

if this is wrong there may be other mistakes, so a fact check is probably in order. also, since this wasn't the reason of apple pulling the plug, it might be nice to know what acutally was. (could the sudden industry-wide interest in java had anything to do with it?)

69.248.248.11 (talk) 00:23, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] better coordination between newton related articles?

there are several articles related to the newton platform, newton based products, etc. the contain a lot of overlap, and yet some topics seem to fall through the cracks. it might be good to work out some of coordinated revisions.

69.248.248.11 (talk) 00:26, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

[edit] Newton, Inc.

What role did Newton, Inc. play?--78.54.220.174 (talk) 21:35, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

[edit] PDA Project

Under the "Development" section, it states that "the Newton project was a PDA platform", yet elsewhere it is listed as a reinvention of personal computing. This is confusing; that the Newton became the first so-labelled "PDA" is a given, but that was not the original concept or goal. Perhaps "project" should be removed? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.218.243.174 (talk) 22:42, 14 May 2011 (UTC)

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[edit] hardware models

[edit] Dylan section needs review

[edit] better coordination between newton related articles?

[edit] Newton, Inc.

[edit] PDA Project

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