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Re:The Newton Application Architecture (1994) [pdf] by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday February 23, 2020 @06:01PM (#22400160)
Was there a plan to interoperate between the Newton's object system and the Macintosh's more traditional file-based system? The paper talks about the type system, but beyond that they don't seem compatible.
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Re:The Newton Application Architecture (1994) [pdf] by wrs on Sunday February 23, 2020 @07:13PM (#22400528)
No, we had a pretty strong opinion on the Newton team that files were not the right thing. Also, we thought of Newton as a stand-alone computer, not a Mac accessory. (Then we learned from the Palm that we kinda missed that one.)

We did a synchronization app for Mac data, but you had to write an adapter to convert your data back and forth to soups. There were never any “files” on the Newton.

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