on 30/10/01 17:33, Michael J. Hu=DFmann at michael_at_michael-hussmann.de wrote:
> good-dog_at_northshore.net (good-dog_at_northshore.net) wrote:
>=20
>> Why does a smaller screen/body rule out real handwriting?
>=20
> Because there isn't enough space, unless your handwriting is really tiny.
> The screen space of the MP2100 is OK in this respect, and certainly
> better than the MP120 I used before. With the 160 x 160 pixel space of
> the Palm, enabling real HWR doesn't help much. Printing single letters in
> a small space is actually the best you can do when you have to live with
> these limitations.
>=20
I fully agree with Michael here. More often than not, I feel "cramped" when
I'm writing some piece of text, not only a word or two. Adapting to write o=
n
a Newton still requires some discipline. It's like writing a full 8 1/2 X 1=
1
story onto a post-it note. There is some difference, for me, to write on a
8" wide piece of paper and a 3" wide.
>> Maybe it wouldn't work, but to dismiss it outright seems a bit much.
>=20
> I have used an MP2100, a MP120, and a Handspring Visor, so I can
> extrapolate from this experience. I wouldn't go back from the MP2100 to
> the MP120, and certainly not to something still smaller.
>=20
Agree again.
>> From what I remember at one time Apple was thinking of shrinking the siz=
e
>> of the Newton, but the idea got canned. Do we know why?
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> Maybe it didn't work out?
I can imagine they would be able to shrink the size of the Newton without
giving up the size of the screen...
-Laurent.
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Laurent Daudelin <http://home.cox.rr.com/nemesys>
Logiciels Nemesys Software mailto:nemesys_at_cox.rr.com
Brooks's Law prov.: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it
later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting
development work among N programmers is O(N) (that is, proportional to N),
but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and
then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of
N). The quote is from Fred Brooks, a manager of IBM's OS/360 project and
author of "The Mythical Man-Month" (Addison-Wesley, 1975, ISBN
0-201-00650-2), an excellent early book on software engineering.
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