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16Feb/090

Why the best Newtons could die next year

There is a bad bug in the handing of time for Newton OS 2.1, which is used on most Newtons still around today. Details of the bug have been collected on the 40hz site. There is one 'fix' that doesn't completely work. What is needed is a real system patch, and those are just not possible anymore, not without massive help from Apple itself.

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