Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30

Re:Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30 by SeanLuke on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:32PM (#32655997)

Dylan was never on the Newton. The Newton team had two proposed products, Senior and Junior. Senior was gonna run Dylan, but they kept waiting on the Dylan team to produce something usable, and it never happened. So they gave up on Senior, dumped the notion of using Dyan entirely, and finished Junior using NewtonScript to get the product out the door. That became the Newton.

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Re:Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30 by Apocryphon on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @06:35PM (#32656024)

Yeah, that's what Walter Smith says:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22400696

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Re:Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30 by wrs on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @09:10PM (#32657175)

Ironically, I see my old comment has two autocorrect typos. :)

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Re:Egg Freckles: The Newton at 30 by p_l on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @08:24PM (#32656871)

I've read somewhat opposite account, that there was a complete Lisp/Dylan system available, but there were issues both political and hardware related that ultimately led to C++ (which was then hot new stuff still) being used with NewtonScript on top.

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