On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Paul Nuernberger wrote:
> I can't speak for those who are left-handed. That Grafitti was created
> specifically to address the needs of left-handers (or even for that matter,
> specifically for the Newton) is news to me. At that time in history there
> were more than two true 'written input' recognizers. Paragraph & Grafitti
> were just the 'best of the lot' in many ways (mainly they worked, mostly).
Yes, Graffiti was first written for the Newton; in 1993, Graffiti 1.0 was
the first product ever released by a small software company known as Palm
Computing, Inc. Ironic, ain't it, that all of the copies of Graffiti sold
went into developing the first PalmPilot.
Now, Graffiti is actually based on a technology called UNistrokes, which
was developed at Xerox PARC in the 1980s. Like all good ideas to come out
of PARC (the mouse, the GUI...) it was ripped off and made into a
marketable product by someone else: in thei case, Palm. In the mid 90s
Xerox sued Palm for patent infringement; I believe they settled out of
court. Here's a Wired article about it:
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,33593,00.html
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