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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by kerng on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:36AM (#16900760)
The COMPAQ iPaq was in many ways ahead of its time. If they would have invested in a better OS, or convinced Microsoft to build something more "mobile", they could have beaten Apple possibly by 3-4 years.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPAQ

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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by kickingvegas on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:03AM (#16900868)
FWIW, everybody in the PDA space was influenced by General Magic. Two others that come to mind were Rex https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REX_5000 and Geos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GEOS_(16-bit_operating_system)
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Re:General Magic is a film about the ‘90s startup that imagi... by kerng on Monday April 23, 2018 @06:45PM (#16908169)
Oh, cool. I haven't heard about the REX. Thanks for sharing.
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