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This is a great anecdote too. Porat explaining his agent concept to Thomas Dolby (yes, the musician) while Bill Gates listened in and blew a fuse: https://news
by joezydeco 4y ago
This is a great anecdote too. Porat explaining his agent concept to Thomas Dolby (yes, the musician) while Bill Gates listened in and blew a fuse:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667776 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17667776
- bitsavers 4y agosince the original was from 2018... "Microsoft came out with a competing technology in that timeframe called 'Microsoft Pen Computing' as a direct response to the hype around General Magic." It was actually put out to kill Go/Penpoint, not GM
- GeekyBear 4y agoPenpoint was a case of the software being very far ahead of it's time. Given that it was run by a Xerox PARC alum, that might be expected. The February 1991 issue of Byte had an introduction to Penpoint, and you can find issue scans online. https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm https://worldradiohistory.com/Byte_Magazine.htm