Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!olivea!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!acad3.alaska.edu!ifjrs From: ifjrs@acad3.alaska.edu (STANNARD JOHN R) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Notebook computers Message-ID: <1991Feb18.103052.7433@ims.alaska.edu> Date: 18 Feb 91 10:30:52 GMT References: <1089@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Sender: usenet@ims.alaska.edu (J Random USENET) Reply-To: ifjrs@acad3.alaska.edu Distribution: na Organization: University of Alaska Fairbanks Lines: 32 News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.3-4 Nntp-Posting-Host: acad3.alaska.edu In article <1089@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU>, barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes... >Check out the latest BYTE (the notebook computer issue) >article on GO corp's PenPoint operating system, which is an >OS + GUI meant to manage handrwritten input text on notebook/tablet >computers. It would >be great if NeXT developed a notebook computer for this OS. > I liked it, I liked it! > >Anyway, I hope NeXT gets into something like this---that would >be really cool (not to mention useful---the academic's dream >come true: a way to manage all those lecture notes!). > ..and LOTS of OTHER uses...as you mentioned, it's NOT a desktop- type machine (nor a workstation, etc.). How about it NeXT? >-- >Barry Merriman >UCLA Dept. of Math >UCLA Inst. for Fusion and Plasma Research >barry@math.ucla.edu (Internet) -- John Stannard KL7JL@KL7JL IFJRS@ACAD3.FAI.ALASKA.EDU BITNET: IFJRS@ALASKA kl7jl.ampr.org "God is the Answer!" "Oh?? ... er, ...What was the Question?" --