Post #4347884
2026-07-31 02:38 UTC
I'm reading "Programming for the Newton", for, uh, reasons (I am weirdly obsessed with this ancient failed PDA).
On Newton, data is stored in "soups", which are globally-accessible data blobs. This is both really cool, and not something that could possibly fly today. But, like, in a high-trust computing environment? Sure. That's not the case with any modern platform.
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@younata@hachyderm.io 2026-08-02 02:31
It arrived. I am very excited. It’s larger than the specs made it appear. I’m going to try to daily-drive this for a bit, but I doubt I’ll do that long-term. #AppleNewton
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@bob_zim@infosec.exchange 2026-08-03 17:54
@younata@hachyderm.io Check out the developer tools like ViewFrame. You could see on the device how the interface of most applications was built, and NewtonScript was a really nice language for building them.