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                                 journa-sn®z

My friend Greg has no need for his Palm Pilot (color even!) so I've borrowed
it on the premise that I can maybe develop some applications for it. I have a
Newton, but while I've yet to learn NewetonScript, Palm Pilot applications
can be done in C and Assembly (Motorola 68000 series, which I know).

I took the unit with me to dinner to see if I could write a journal entry,
and well …



> Lctt sec hou thit nos for a journa-sn®z.
>

Spring [1] did no better with her attempt:



> Asolen waffle toppe with breyers ice cream and your choics ot topping
>
> **TRANSLATION:** A golden waffle topped with Breyer's ice cream and your
> choice of topping.
>

Here's my next attempt:

> Okay, take 2, only much slower this time. And boy is this slow. The Newton
> has much better writing recognition than this.
>

I should note that the Newton (running 2.0 of the Newton OS (Operating
System)) I could write like I would on a piece of paper and it would keep up
with me, even though it's a 20MHz CPU (Central Processing Unit) with 6M of
RAM (Random Access Memory). I'm not sure how fast the Palm Pilot is, but it
has 8M of RAM, and even using a simplified writing alphabet (Grafiti) it
still had problems keeping up with me.

We shall see.

[1] http://www.springdew.com/

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