Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!psuvax1!swatsun!swatsun!gessel From: gessel@ilium.cs.swarthmore.edu (Daniel Mark Gessel) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Notebook computers Message-ID: Date: 19 Feb 91 16:49:30 GMT References: <1089@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> <1991Feb14.154041.1@capd.jhuapl.edu> <1991Feb16.142816.6063@ni.umd.edu> Sender: news@cs.swarthmore.edu Distribution: na Organization: Swarthmore College, Swarthmore Pa. Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: louie@sayshell.umd.edu's message of 16 Feb 91 14:28:16 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ilium The article mentions the virtual keyboard. The screen is also a touch screen. You could get qwerty or dvorak or any of your choosing, with the letters all drawn on the keyboard in the right place no matter what keyboard. Type away. I would prefer to see NeXTStep or some variation if I'm going to buy a portable from NeXT. NeXTStep would be just dandy on a portable, with handwriting recognition. I don't think it'd be hard to put a handwriting recognizer in that would convert letters to keystrokes before they went to the window server to be dispatched to applications. (Assuming the recognizing algorithms were already known). Dan -- Daniel Mark Gessel Internet: gessel@cs.swarthmore.edu I do not speak (nor type) representing Swarthmore College.