> The Apple Newton already used animation in its GUI: deleting > a page would crumble it and throw it in a trash can. Erasing > some graphics would generate some vaporizing clouds, all of > course including the appropriate sound. > > So, yes, offering graphics, sprites, and animation in a GUI > is not that far fetched. Can it be Fast and Light? The Newton > OS was written in 1992 and has 8MB of ROM for the OS and 1MB > of RAM plus 4MB of "mass" storage - pretty impressive.
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