Einstein: the Newton OS emulator
December 3rd, 2007
Looking to play around with the Newton – without the MessagePad?
Head over to Einstein.
Einstein ports the Newton’s operating system ROM onto Macs and lets you play around with the OS on your desktop. The whole project has now become open source, called OpenEinstein.
Says Paul Guyot, Einstein’s creator, on the Newton:
What I particularly enjoy is the reactions of other people. Some artificial intelligence researchers were amazed at this even if the handwriting recognition is no rocket science nowadays.
Guyot’s efforts are part of a movement to get Newtons to connect with just about every OS and work on any non-Apple hardware – like this – available.