ARM - Newton

[Bunsen]

That said, Einstein emulates all that custom hardware, including MMU (memory management unit), allowing it to run under other operating systems. / I'd love to see someone develop a minimal Linux/BSD based OS install with just enough to run Einstein on it

Honestly, this is the only realistic approach.

Morgant, if I might ask, where is Einstein development happening these days?

 

[Bunsen]

I had already bought it by the time you posted.  Worst case scenario, I wind up with a bigmessowires...

Naw, stick OpenEmbedded on it and you'll at least have a useable pocket *nix machine.  Basilisk or Mini vMac should even run adequately on top of that.

 

[raoulduke]

Has there been any progress on Internet capability from the underlying system or system's drivers?

 

[morgant]

Einstein development has picked up on GitHub at https://github.com/pguyot/Einstein. Paul Guyot returned to make some fixes and migrate it from Google Code to GitHub, Steven Frank has made some updates for building on new versions of OS X (and iOS? I can't recall), and Matthias Melcher has been continuing to make excellent progress on replacing ROM code with native code for improved performance.

I know an ethernet card emulation had been added at some point and that it worked for HTTP access, but I can't recall which platforms other than OS X were supported or how reliable it was. Since it connects through the host device's network/Internet connection, that can work with WiFi.

Naturally, the big issue with Internet connectivity at this point is the lack of SSL support. Beside some of the research I had done in planning my own port of PolarSSL to NewtonOS (see NewtSSL on Google Code, which I sadly haven't had time to continue yet), Jake Bordens has experimented with compiling CyaSSL.

 

[raoulduke]

Thank you. I'll check it out. I mostly use it on android but I have it on OS X.

I'LL PM you. I have some broader NewtonOS questions.

 

[raoulduke]

For the record, I would have posted again sooner but I can't figure out how to convert a Newton ROM into a .stg file for the Backup feature on Active Sync/Mobile Center.  I'm honestly probably not going to be able to put much time into surmounting that for a while.