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- From: brian@grot.starconn.com (Brian Smithson)
- Subject: Re: Pentop Field Widening
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.041747.12426@grot.starconn.com>
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- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 04:17:47 GMT
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- Jake-S@cup.portal.com (Jake G Schwartz) writes:
-
- >Members of the editorial press who were pre-registered for the upcoming
- >Winter Consumer Electronics Show received the following invitation in
- >the mail last week:
- > ----------------------------------
-
- >Casio Computers Co., Ltd. and Tandy Corporation
- > Invite You To
- > a
- > Technology Briefing
- > Of Our
- > Revolutionary
- > Handheld, Pen-Based
- > Personal Information Processor
-
- > Thursday, January 7, 1993
- > Las Vegas Convention Center
- > Room D107
- > 12:00 Noon - 1:30 PM
- > -----------------------------------
-
- >It should be rather interesting to see if this is a "mee-too" of the
- >Sharp 9600, or something entirely different.
-
- Maybe it has something to do with this? If so, then it should be quite
- interesting.
-
- ------------------------------------------------------------
-
- GeoWorks Joins Tandy and Casio to Develop New Family of Personal Information
- Processors; GEOS(R) to Become Soul of a New Machine
-
- LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 2, 1992 -- GeoWorks today formally announced that it
- will join Tandy Corporation, of Fort Worth, Texas, and Casio Computer Co.,
- Ltd. of Tokyo, Japan, in the development of a new generation of personal,
- portable information devices dubbed "Personal Information Processors." GeoWorks
- will supply GEOS(R) (Graphic Environment Operating System), its award winning,
- graphical, object oriented operating environment to this new family of devices.
- The announcement was made on the first day of Lap & Palmtop '92.
-
- "We are very excited about joining Tandy and Casio, two giants in the computer
- and consumer electronics industry," said Brian Dougherty, CEO of GeoWorks.
- "Tandy is the leading consumer and computer electronics manufacturer and
- retailer in the U.S.; Casio is the world's leading supplier of electronic
- (digital) organizers and calculators. We couldn't have asked for a better
- endorsement of the capability and flexibility of GEOS."
-
- "Our goal is to create a family of products that integrate various digital
- technologies into exciting and cost effective consumer products," said Howard
- Elias, Vice President of Tandy Computers. " We envision a range of devices
- based on an open operating environment, easy to use software applications, and
- innovative input methods like pen. We specifically chose GEOS for the first of
- a new generation of small, low poer and low-cost devices because of its
- efficient design, small code size and real time power management."
-
- GEOS is a state of the art graphical operating environment. Its object oriented
- design incorporates preemptive multithreaded multitasking, a PostScript(R)-like
- single imaging model for true "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) display
- and printing, and high performance virtual memory management. Additionally,
- GEOS supports both scalable and flexible user interface technologies which allow
- an application to have selectable levels of complexity (beginner to advanced) as
- well as multiple types of input devices (keyboard, mouse, touch screen, pen,
- etc.). GeoWorks recently announced support for pen-based applications in
- February at the Technologic Partners Pen Computing '92 Conference.
-
- Minimum system requirements for GEOS are an 8088 (PC XT class) processor, 512 K
- of memory, and 1MB of fixed storage.
-
- "We designed GEOS with these hand held devices in mind, " said Dougherty. "We
- believe the opportunity for this 'fourth wave' of computing dwarfs the current
- market for desktop PC's. However, in order for the this market to ignite,
- compelling low-cost devices and applications must be in place. GEOS makes these
- exciting developments possible."
-
- Among those developing GEOS-based applications is Palm Computing. Founded by
- Jeff Hawkins, formerly V.P. of Research at GRiD Systems, Palm is commited to the
- hand held and consumer palmtop market. Palm will provide applications software
- and its PalmPrint handwriting recognition software for the Tandy/Casio Personal
- Information Processors.
-
- GeoWorks has over 500,000 customers of its GEOS-based GeoWorks Ensemble and
- GeoWorks Pro application suite, making GEOS the fastest ramping new graphical
- operating environment in the history of the PC industry. GeoWorks Pro is
- available in seven languages: Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian,
- and Spanish.
-
- GeoWorks, located in Berkeley California, is the developer and publisher of the
- acclaimed GEOS graphical oprating system and GeoWorks Pro applications software.
- The company provides sophisticated and highly efficient systems and applications
- software solutions for business, home and school computer users. GeoWorks
- products are available worldwide through OEM and dealer channels.
-
- # # #
-
- Contact: Lee Llevano, Vice President Marketing
- GeoWorks
- (510) 486-8655
-
- GEOS and GeoWorks are registered trademarks of GeoWorks
- PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated
-
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-
- --
- -Brian Smithson
- brian@grot.starconn.com
-