[207] in bcs-newton
Re: Beaming software? how?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (laird@marble.com)
Wed Aug 25 16:45:55 1993
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 16:45:08 -0500
To: bcs-newton@world.std.com, Brad Parker <brad@fcr.com>
From: laird@marble.com
I believe that you're right -- I don't think that there's a way to move
software out of a MessagePad, though an Apple person said that Apple is
working on a utility to move data between PCMCIA cards, which I would
*guess* would also be able to move data between RAM and a card.
I was a little stunned as well, when I couldn't figure out a way to "beam"
an application, certainly the Newton ought to be able to.
It shouldn't be too hard to write a program to beam data between Newtons --
the functions are all there for moving data via beam or ADSP (LocalTalk),
so it's a matter of actually finding the application's components to send
them, and catching them at the other end. While I say it shouldn't be
hard, it just might be, and I bet Apple would be pretty upset if it didn't
respect the various protection bits. Of course, that Poker game shouldn't
be protected...
>I wanted to give a friend of mine the poker game I downloaded from
>Compuswerve. I thought, "well, I'll just *beam* it to him", right?
>
>wrong.
>
>I was unable to find anyway to beam software from one Newton to another.
>
>Am I an dunce or is this not possible?
>
>Oh, wait - no doubt this is "on purpose" so we can't bypass the
>amazing innovative business model Apple has for Newton software.
>
>#$$@^$&$#^#
>
>I think I just discovered what my first Newton app will be.
>
>please someone tell me I'm wrong...
>
>-brad
- Laird Popkin laird@marble.com
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