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From: folta@tove.cs.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
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Subject: Re: GO OS vs. Microsoft Pen Windows
Keywords: go microsoft stylus notebook windows
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Date: 19 Mar 91 14:32:04 GMT
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>I wonder what will be Apple's contribution to the pen-based computer 
>generation?

Of course, rumors abound concerning Apple's notebook effort. I think I read
somewhere that Scully said something like, "We missed the laptop market, but
we intend to hit the notebook market hard." I have read that this effort might
include Sony hardware or a licensing of Mac OS to Sony.

Actually, Apple has fired the first shot in its Mac-based pen effort. I read
that some small company has come out with a Kanji pen pad, wherein a Japanese
user can write on the pad in Kanji, and get text as if typing at the keyboard.
I guess it is an ADB device, and looks to the Mac like a keyboard. Apple was
evidently really pushing this thing hard in Japan.
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Wayne Folta          (folta@cs.umd.edu  128.8.128.8)