Tablet PC

[Frank Cox]

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:31:27 -0600
Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:

>     The "Tablet PC" was invented by Micro$oft and it has XP installed I 
> think. 

Unfortunately, that's wrong on all counts.

 Alan Kay of Xerox created the Dynabook in 1969, and had nothing whatsoever to
to with Microsoft.  There have been several tablet computers issued since then,
with varying levels of commercial success.

If you are interested solely in Microsoft's take on tablet computing, the first
MS operating system used on tablet pc's was MS-DOS, starting in 1989.  And the
first version of MS Windows for tablet pc's was an add-on to Windows 3.0 called
Windows for Pen Computing in 1992.  All of which pre-dates Windows XP by a
substantial period of time.

None of this answers the original question, but it does point out that "tablet
computing" is not a Windows-only activity by any means.


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