[52] in bcs-newton
Re: Nihongo Newton?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mitch Ratcliffe)
Sat Mar 13 21:08:31 1993
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1993 18:06:01 -0800
From: Mitch Ratcliffe <coyote@well.sf.ca.us>
To: CarlManning@ai.mit.edu, bcs_jim@MIT.EDU
Cc: bcs-newton@world.std.com
>(Speaking of competitors, I noted at Mobile World last week that Pensoft's
>Perspective [in PenPoint on the EO] includes a feature called "the
>Associate", which cross references what you write, giving you capabilities
>which start to look similar to the Newton's "Lunch with Jane" scenario,
>at least the "which Jane?" part.)
Actually, the Associate is not as wide-ranging at the Newton recognizers.
Information is recognized within Perspective, but not within the PenPoint
OS. Any application can leverage off the OS's object-orientation to, say,
index information in various documents. In Newton, anytime you enter the
name Jane, it would be linked to other information about Jane -- at least,
that's the propoganda these days. If true, the Newt and off-shoots can
provide some pretty effective information management capabilities, which is
more than what people currently associate with taking notes.
Mitch Ratcliffe
Editor at Large
MacWEEK
