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- From: flip@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Phillip Russell)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: a non-techie view of Newton
- Message-ID: <57320@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 04:25:51 GMT
- References: <4603@news.duke.edu> <nb!nsy=.derek@netcom.com> <ewright.714240488@convex.convex.com>
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- In article <ewright.714240488@convex.convex.com> ewright@convex.com (Edward V. Wright) writes:
- >In <nb!nsy=.derek@netcom.com> derek@netcom.com (Derek LeLash) writes:
- >
- >>Newton and the PowerBooks have nothing in common except that they're from
- >>Apple and they're black.
- >
- >Not even that much. Newton PDAs will be available not only from Apple,
- >but from other companies such as Sharp (which now makes the Wizard) and
- >Toshiba (which is developing a CD-ROM based multimedia version to be out
- >around the middle of next year.)
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- This brings up a question I have.
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- Are the Newton PDAs and the ones from Sharp, Sony, etc identical or will
- they be "Newton clones" that will have compatability problems?
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- Flip
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