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From: kamidon@zip.eecs.umich.edu (Keith Amidon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: GO OS vs. Microsoft Pen Windows
Summary: Go's interface is interesting.
Keywords: go microsoft stylus notebook windows
Message-ID: <1991Mar18.190012.11311@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
Date: 18 Mar 91 19:00:12 GMT
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I am very interested in both the Microsoft and GO pen-based software.
My base of information on both of these is pretty small, consisting of
a BYTE article on PenPoint and a few news releases about the pen
adaptations for windows.  However, I am going to give my opinions anyway 8^)

First of all, I will admit that Microsoft has a real advantage in having
a lot of software ready to go.  With that statement, you probably figured
correctly that I will now explain why I like PenPoint better, and you're
right!  As a student,  I find the notebook metaphor around which the PenPoint
operating system's GUI is built to be absolutely superb.  I have dreams of
being able to sit in class, writing notes on a thin portable LCD screen,
and then being able to go home and reorganize and append my own incites into
them.  I can't imagine anything that could be less threatening to a
non-computer user (not that I am one, but anything that helps....).  On the
other-hand, while windows certainly is many times better than DOS for the
new user, I think it is significantly more complicated to get started with
than the descriptions I have seen of PenPoint.

Finally, I would like to end this post with a request for more information.
Does anyone know what GO's policy on using the system is going to be, how
it was implemented (i.e. is it mainly C code and portable, or pretty wired
into the 80x86 line), and any other information.  Is there a list of
companies which are planning on developing things for PenPoint.  

Maybe I should dig up their address from byte........

                                                   Keith

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