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Newton vs. Wizard&B.O.S.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ted Dushane)
Sun Mar 28 20:43:19 1993
Date: 28 Mar 1993 20:42:38 -0500
From: "Ted Dushane" <Ted.Dushane@med.umich.edu>
To: "Newton General Disc." <bcs-newton@world.std.com>
Return-Receipt-To: "Ted Dushane" <Ted.Dushane@med.umich.edu>
Subject: Time:8:38 PM
OFFICE MEMO Newton vs. Wizard&B.O.S.S. Date:3/28/93
I'm borrowing a friend's BOSS for a week, and I see now why he wants to sell it
to me cheap (and why he doesn't use it, even though it's a top of the line
model). We are both physicians, at many times having to pick up our datebook,
write something or search something in less than 30 sec.with a lot of
requirements for specific fields and relational database use (at the simplest
level - linking of related databases by specific field elements).
It would be fine, even to have an instant power-up, minimal crash, 230 Duo
which had optional printed handwriting/tablet recognition, in addition to
trackball/mouse and keyboard implementation.
Now that's not futuristic, but try to work with any of the commercial programs
on a 230, and you'll see that it's only a little better than the Wizard and the
B.O.S.S. - they're all fundamentally too slow for PRACTICAL use on the fly.
Yes, I mean slower than paper and pencil with a Day-at-a-Glance datebook.
For those of us who sit at a desk only about 20-40% of a day, there is a much
more difficult technical problem than for those who sit at a desk all day long
in front of their monitor(s).
What do the gurus have to say on this one?
