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From: taber@ultnix.enet.dec.com (Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: RFD: Alternate proposal
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Date: 17 May 91 11:56:20 GMT
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In article <6819@male.EBay.Sun.COM>, toddb@probe.EBay.Sun.COM (Todd
Bernhard) writes:

|>      [...]                           And, "palmtops"
|>is a misnomer....Does anyone put a handheld computer in
|>their palms to use?  And type with your nose????  Now a
|>vertically oriented calculator could be held in one palm
|>and worked with the free hand.  So handheld.palmtop is not
|>descriptive.
|>

"Palmtop" is the term that is becoming current in the industry to
describe these beasts, so although it may be a misnomer, it will be a
term that people will understand.  Using "handheld" for palmtop would be
confusing to the people who are used to the term, which dates back at
least as far as the "HP41 Handheld Computer" from which this group got
its current name.

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                                     Patrick St. Joseph Teahan Taber, KC1TD

"Nerd" is so demeaning, I prefer "fashion-impared."