Judy Perry wrote:
> Paul said:
>
> <<You all remember that $100 million dollars that Apple got from
> Microsoft? Microsoft pledged to continue supporting the Mac. Where would
> the world be with out IE and Word? It is not hard to imagine that what
> the Microsoft got was the death of the Newton out of the deal. Can anyone
> think of another technology that has been so totally "buried alive" in
> the 90s?>>
>
> I am new to this list but couldn't help respond to this one -- The other
> great technology that got 'buried alive' (knife the baby, perhaps?) was
> Hypercard, an inspiration for the development of the web and Microsoft's
> VB.
>
> But now that I'm here, I am wondering if/how Newton OS2 can be installed
> on my OS1.3 for my MP120 (hot off ebay...)? All I have is the MP itself
> and charger -- no manuals and no clues.
No, you can't do that. The NOS 2.0 upgrade is a hardware one. You need to
replace the ROM chips in your 1.3 with the 2.0 ROMs.
Sorry about that...
-Laurent.
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