> Jean-Louis Gassee You mention a name I haven't thought of in a while. The group/company I worked with in the early 90's did some interfacing with him and the Newton group when the first wave of PDA hoopla was happening. Also interfaced with MS at the time, on their First Generation PDA OS. Unfortunately, Nobody made any money, and lots of plans never saw the light of day.
There were many discussions those days about things that have finally happened: - Stuffing TCP stacks into ROM - Stuffing good voice reco into ROM Those were really interesting times for me. Frank ____________________________________________________________ Dan Shafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There was at one point inside Apple a very serious discussion about adding a TCP stack to HyperCard and stuffing it into the ROM. This was a year or more before the Internet exploded. The guy who promoted the idea got show down by Jean-Louis Gassee and left the company. Just imagine.... On Nov 28, 2005, at 12:13 AM, Dom wrote: > wonder why Apple didn't make Hypertalk system-wide > (apart reinventing the wheel...) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dan Shafer, Information Product Consultant and Author http://www.shafermedia.com Get my book, "Revolution: Software at the Speed of Thought" >From http://www.shafermediastore.com/tech_main.html _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
