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The PenPoint OS was one of the earliest operating systems designed specifically for tablets and PDAs. It was developed by GO Corporation in the late 1980s and early 1990s and ran on devices from IBM, NCR, and GRiD Systems. Some key features of PenPoint included extensive use of gestures for navigation, treating documents like pages in a notebook, and allowing applications to dynamically adjust layouts for portrait and landscape modes.

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The PenPoint OS was one of the earliest operating systems designed specifically for tablets and PDAs. It was developed by GO Corporation in the late 1980s and early 1990s and ran on devices from IBM, NCR, and GRiD Systems. Some key features of PenPoint included extensive use of gestures for navigation, treating documents like pages in a notebook, and allowing applications to dynamically adjust layouts for portrait and landscape modes.

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Franz Allen L.

Ranas 2013-45892 Operating System for TABLETS The next really influential tablet system was from GO Corporation. The prototype "Lombard" was 80286 based, and ran a new, GUI operating system called PenPoint. GO was started in 1987. After announcing their product in January 1991, GO upgraded the base system to require an 80386 for the first real customer release (which was in April 1992). Later, as the company named EO, the processor for PenPoint was changed again, this time to the AT&T Hobbit chip. Each time, software developers had to PenPoint Tablet operated by PenPoint OS upgrade their software. After GO started on PenPoint, Microsoft reacted with enhancements to Windows 3.1 to create Windows for Pen Computing, better known as PenWindows. (Source: http://www.bricklin.com/tabletcomputing.htm)

The PenPoint OS was a product of GO Corporation and was one of the earliest operating systems written specifically for graphicaltablets and personal digital assistants. It ran on AT&T Corporation's EO Personal Communicator as well as a number of Intel x86powered tablet PCs including IBM's ThinkPad 700T series, NCR's 3125, 3130 and some of GRiD Systems' penbased portables. Developers of the PenPoint OS included Robert Carr, who was involved with the Alto computer at Xerox PARC. Byte magazine awarded PenPoint best Operating System in the 1992 Byte Awards. PenPoint won in the Standards and Operating Systems category in PC Magazine's 1991 Technical Excellence awards. The PenPoint operating system had novel early implementations of several computing advances, including: a large set of gestures such as circle to edit, X to delete, and caret to insert using the same gestures at all levels of the operating system and applications press and hold for moving any selection, which showed the selection as a floating icon to be dropped into a destination a rich notebook user interface metaphor: Documents existed as pages in a notebook with tabs (this was not new in PenPoint, but PenPoint was the first to make it a primary OS interface; Microsoft later did it in Windows for Pen Computing) a document architecture where each document was a directory nested in another document's directory (in some sense, this was an extension of the document architecture on Multics) dynamic toolkit layout: this allowed applications to rescale for landscape and portrait orientation a system-wide pluggable address book In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows/Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by GO Corp. concerning user interfaces for the PenPoint OS. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenPoint_OS)

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