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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.pen
- Path: sparky!uunet!brunix!iris!jhc
- From: jhc@iris.uucp (James H. Coombs)
- Subject: Re: PDA's vs Pen Computers (what's the difference?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul25.163616.9309@cs.brown.edu>
- Keywords: pen, pda, newton
- Sender: news@cs.brown.edu
- Reply-To: jhc@iris.UUCP (James H. Coombs)
- Organization: IRIS - Brown University
- References: <ffjmp7g.cew@netcom.com>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:36:16 GMT
- Lines: 26
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- In article <ffjmp7g.cew@netcom.com> cew@netcom.com (Clayton Weimer) writes:
-
- >This discussion about naming a group PDAs or Newton has me wondering
-
- What is a PDA?
-
- >This discussion with quotes such as "I think the Newton will stay as the
- >most popular PDA due to company name recognition.", and such naive
-
- Has Newton been released? If not, how could it "stay...popular"?
-
- >articles such as the one in Byte this month discussing how neat it was
- >Newton could recognize circle gestures and pretty them up, shows a
-
- I saw circle recognition at least 1 1/2 years ago in PenPoint.
- Praising Newton for circle recognition would be like praising Microsoft
- Word for word wrapping.
-
- >serious misunderstanding of where the technology is today, and where it
- >is headed, IMHO.
-
- Ok, where is it headed? I agree that geometric shape recognition would
- not be important to me, but I would like to hear what you consider
- fundamental to the technology and its future.
-
- --Jim
-