"Data in Newton was stored in object-oriented databases known as soups. One of the revolutionary aspects of Newton was that soups were available to all programs; and programs could operate cross-soup; meaning that the calendar could refer to names in the address book; a note in the notepad could be converted to an appointment, and so forth; and the soups could be programmer-extended - a new address book enhancement could be built on the data from the existing address book."
I never did any Newton coding, so maybe someone with experience can give a better answer.
Wow. That seems like a real nice type of method of storing and managing data. Is there anything out there today that follows this same approach?
File Soup worked well on the newton because it was such a small environment that a developer had a good idea of every program that could be on the Newton. Scaling it up to a desktop computer would be very difficult to accomplish without destroying the idea.
Apple made a stab at it with OpenDoc, but that was killed because it never really caught on, and Microsoft FUD'ed everyone that OLE was the same thing.
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Originally posted by Tuttle
"What do you mean about the Newton having a "file soup" file system?"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Newton
"Data in Newton was stored in object-oriented databases known as soups. One of the revolutionary aspects of Newton was that soups were available to all programs; and programs could operate cross-soup; meaning that the calendar could refer to names in the address book; a note in the notepad could be converted to an appointment, and so forth; and the soups could be programmer-extended - a new address book enhancement could be built on the data from the existing address book."
I never did any Newton coding, so maybe someone with experience can give a better answer.
Wow. That seems like a real nice type of method of storing and managing data. Is there anything out there today that follows this same approach?
Mike
Apple made a stab at it with OpenDoc, but that was killed because it never really caught on, and Microsoft FUD'ed everyone that OLE was the same thing.