From: Jim Menard <jimm@...>
Date: 2001-12-01T00:16:56+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27075] Re: Musing

Steve Tuckner <STUCKNER@MULTITECH.COM> writes:

> I went through three generations of Newtons before their ultimate demise
> (and I still use by 2100) and have been waiting for a replacement that had
> the elegance of a newton with modern networking functionality.

I recently busted my second Pilot, and am back with my Newton.

> The main
> barrier to acheiving that however is the lack of an open source/free source
> version of a handwriting recognition algorithm (not grafitti or Jot like but
> a real printed recognizer). If that can't be found then we still need
> something like grafitti or Jot (and this may exist).

Alan Kay's character recognizer, developed in the 60's, is included with
Squeak (www.squeak.org). We could probably rewrite it pretty easily.

Jim
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