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From: akcs.falco@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Andrey Dolgachev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: GO OS vs. Microsoft Pen Windows
Keywords: go microsoft stylus notebook windows
Message-ID: <27e7e2b6:2480.3comp.sys.handhelds;1@hpcvbbs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Mar 91 22:40:08 GMT
References: <71390@microsoft.UUCP> <1991Mar20.010015.1852@neon.Stanford.EDU>
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Andrew says that GO would be great for editing, but not for the original
entry of text.  
Actually, it's the other way around.  Thw whole point of GO is not that
it is a standalone, all you have computer, but that you caould use
everywhere.  Even the smallest handhelds computers are not feasible to
use in many times.  Either you need a lap for the larger computers, or
the smaller ones that you can use like a real notebook, don't have good
keyboards.  On the other hand, since the GO computer is extremely light,
small and only requires a pen for entry, you can anywhere you would use a
notepad.  For example, I could take notes or do a checklist or something
lie that while I'm standing up with no problem at all.  That would be the
original entry.  Then, I would transfeer all the info to my real computer
and eidt, change, publish, whatever.
  I think that the best use of the GO computer would be the above, using
it like your notepad .  The software could even be put on a really small
computer.  The article I read talked about GO software on a minature
computer that you could put in your shirt pocket, just like a memo pad.  
 The idea is that it gives you the simplicity of paper, with the
advantages of a computer, plus instant transfer capabilities to a large
computer.
  This is why I think that putting a Pen interface over a Windows
interface over a DOS interface is ridiculous.  In addition to being
really slow, there's not as much of a point.  I think Apple has the right
idea, becasue they would probablyu be making the real small computers,
which are the real notepad style computers.  There is no point in putting
a pen interface on a IBM PS/2 except to make it easier to use.   And the
IBM can't be made easy to use, while the MAc can't really be made much
more easier to use.  Well, the last sentece is probably not completely
true, but the point is that GO will revolutionize and get rid of
notepads, memo pads, etc.  w/o having that much of an effect on the large
computers, like the desktop variety.
   ---Falco
Personally, I want a GO!  Except..How can you play Tetris with a pen?