Talk:PenPoint OS

message: PenPoint was and is a Masterpiece in my opinion. Too bad it is nolonger available. Or is it? AT&T seems to have no documentation reguarding this gem. If anyone knows where to look, please point this out.
I would like to thank Mr Kaplan and Mr Carr for bestowing there genius appon us and remind them that it is not forgoten.
: Thanks for the kind words.  I think a Taiwanese company bought the intellectual property when GO/EO went under, but did nothing with it, so the O.S. is owned but unavailable.  At one of the alumni reunions I met a guy at a small independent software vendor who sold apps based on PenPoint; he had acquired a license for the source code and had made some improvements like limited color support and support on recent tablet computers.  In addition to the user-friendly The Power of PenPoint book mentioned in the Wikipedia article, Addison-Wesley published a GO Technical Library including Penpoint Programming .   -- Skierpage 06:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
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message: The article needs updating with all awards PenPoint won ("Byte Magazine O.S. of the year", umm, ??) and more details of its UI and API innovations:
* large set of gestures like circle tap
* press and hold for copying
* Notebook metaphor (that asshole Microsoft shamelessly ripped off for their paper announcement of Windows for Pen Computering after GO disclosed PenPoint to them).
* really simple document embedding (compared with 600 pages of OLE thanks to the underlying "each document is a directory nested in another document's directory" architecture)
I'd need time to dig up references for all those... I'll paste this section in and see if it survives. -- Skierpage 06:26, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, I have listed a few articles from BYTE. Hope they are helpful. - wneo (talk) 09:10, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
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message: *Searching for "PenPoint" in the Internet Archive's BYTE Magazine collection returned 15 results. Volume Titles are from Vintage Byte Magazine Library
:*Laptop Technologies (Volume 16 Number 02; Feb 1991)
::*Laptop Technologies
::*The Point of the Pen: GO's new PenPoint operating system brings handwriting recognition to the laptop.
:*Network Management (Volume 16 Number 03; Mar 1991)
::*Microsoft Taps Windows to Support Pens
::*Grid Will Work with PenPoint and PenWindows
:*Developing Applications Across Platforms (Volume 17 Number 01; Jan 1992)
::*The Palmtop 386 Is Getting Closer
::*The 1991 BYTE Awards: The best products of the last year get the recognition they deserve
::*Let the System Do The Porting
:*Memory and Storage Advances (Volume 17 Number 03; Mar 1992)
::*The Future of Pen Computing, Part 1
:*An Interface For All Senses (Volume 17 Number 04; Apr 1992)
::*WATCOM (Ad)
::*Spreadsheet Could Boost PenPoint
::*The Future of Pen Computing, Part 2
::*Wireless Networking
:*A New World of Displays and Image-Processing (Volume 17 Number 07; Jul 1992)
::*WATCOM (Ad)
::*The PC Gets More Personal
:*Real-Time Computing (Volume 17 Number 08; Aug 1992)
::*Wireless Data Communications for Service Workers
::*WATCOM (Ad)
::*Day-Timers Go Electronics
::*A New Take on an Old Theme
::*Get Instant On-Site CAD Feedback
:*Photonics (Volume 17 Number 09; Sep 1992)
::*The Outlook for Pen Computing
::*WATCOM (Ad)
:*1992 BYTE Awards (Volume 18 Number 01; Jan 1993)
::*Two Toshiba Systems to Go
::*The 1992 BYTE Awards
::*Digitizer Renaissance
:*Create CD-ROMs (Volume 18 Number 02; Feb 1993)
::*WATCOM (Ad)
::*Pen Application Builder
::*Communications Get Personal
:*Smarter E-mail (Volume 18 Number 03; Mar 1993)
::*WATCOM (Ad)
::*EO's Personal Communicator Ushers In a New Era
::*Collaborative Computing
:*Fighting Fatware (Volume 18 Number 04; Apr 1993)
::*WATCOM (Ad)
::*A Pentop to Flip Over
:*Which Windows? (Volume 18 Number 06; Jun 1993) Alternative
::*Windows Bias (Letter)
::*Anstrad's Affordable Pen Package
::*Windows, Windows, Everywhere?
:*Pentium PCs Volume 18 Number 08 (Aug 1993)
::*Applying the Power of the Pen
:Hope this helps editors with references. - wneo (talk) 16:17, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
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