From: Chris Ruprecht (chris_at_ruprecht.org)
Date: Sun Mar 23 2003 - 19:49:55 PST
On 03/23/2003 21:03, "John Charlton" <johncharlton_at_mac.com> wrote:
>
> On Sunday, Mar 23, 2003, at 19:06 America/Montreal, Chris Ruprecht
> wrote:
>
[snip]
>
> It's probably as good as can be expected, given that you're not
> actually writing on the screen in screen coordinates. Had they done
> that it might have been more useful. As it stands, any mistake causes
> much more trouble in correction as the useful utilities are absent
> (double-tap, write-over character, join and break, etc.) because they
> don't have a location to apply to. Is the tablet PC as lame? I imagine
> so, or worse.
I was using a tablet PC about 2 weeks ago and it's not bad - better than Ink
anyway. They have a little application to take notes, but you can't write
anywhere else. The recognition is pretty good, it's not in Newton class -
but then, what is? What surprised me was, when I saved the note, it used the
text I wrote as the title of the document - it had recognized it but didn't
auto-convert it. As I said, not bad, specially for something coming from
Microsoft, I wonder which company they bought that one from ;).
>
> Nevertheless nice to see that something lives on. Rosetta! Rosetta!
>
I wonder if Apple lost the source code for NOS, something that good, got a
rebirth that bad is quite puzzling ...
Best regards,
Chris
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