Books about Apple or involving Apple are dangerous for me to read, as they tend to cause acute onsets of nostalgia. The latest case is David Pogue’s “Apple - The first 50 years.” I fortunately got over the point of purchasing an original Macintosh, but I don’t find it too hard to justify getting something more usable, like a ‘040 Mac, which can be used for Newton development! Danger was averted though, Einstein saved the day as I realized that it would make more sense to get back to some of the open items there.
Right now I am trying to clean up the serial port support, and promptly
ended up in yak shaving territory. The goal is to simplify building and
ideally also contributing to Einstein, and the different layers of yak
wool are: Getting the REx building process streamlines, making
building NewtonScript packages using tntk as simple as possible,
fixing package creation issues with DCL, and as the current step,
fixing function frame generation with NEWT/0. Side tracks are sorting
out GCC compiler issues, pondering the use of mosrun as part of the
build process, and wondering which code forge could support cross
platform builds. Good times!