someone showed me their newish palm the other day and some of  its
graffitti strokes were quite different to the original palm (first model)
that i own.


On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 09:46:17 +1200
Michael JasonSmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 18:37, Paul William wrote:
> > > Unistrokes can take a while to get used to, but it is fairly fast.  The
> > 
> > but much slower than single stroke 'funny' letters :(
> Unistrokes *is* the single-stroke "funny" letters.  The original paper
> was called "Touch Typing with a Pen" IIRC, and was written by them fine
> folks at Xerox PARC.  When Palm (US Robotics?) introduced Graffiti they
> got sued by Xerox.  They have since come to an arrangement that I cannot
> recall off the top of my head...
> 
> The down side to Unistrokes is that you do have to learn a new
> character-set (albeit related to standard Roman characters).  However,
> the characters are fast to write, and the processing power needed to
> recognise the characters is far less than with true hand-writing
> recognition.
> -- 
> Michael JasonSmith                                   http://www.ldots.org/

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