Friday, February 27, 1998

Mail Starting 2/27/98.

SF Chron: Clinton draws high-tech cheers, local jeers.

Aloha! Keola Donaghy is using Frontier to make serving RealAudio content easier.

Patrick Gaumond says that www.asia.microsoft.com is four times faster than www.microsoft.com.

Wired: Scientists discover anti-gravity?

Betty is back! Please reload this page several times to help us test the server. We fixed a major bug last night, and believe it should now be able to sustain a reasonable load. Thanks for your help testing this.

Microsoft: Writing ISAPI Filters and Script Interpreters. Thanks! This is exactly what we needed.

Apple discontinues Newton OS. Instead of seeing this as a glass-half-empty thing, let's look on the bright side. Frontier could do much of what the Newton OS could do. Their "soup" was a lot like our object database. Their programming language was a lot like ours. But our stuff built on the Mac OS, theirs didn't. We zigged where Apple zagged, and our paths met up.

I've gotten a bunch of mail on the Newton bit above and I want to clarify. I've always believed a small form factor Mac OS machine would be great. Newton was in the way. Now, many years later, technology has moved forward and a hand-held Mac OS machine makes even more sense. If they want Newton-like functionality, we have a lot of it already built in Frontier.