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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (134996)	3/27/2001 11:16:52 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580262

"Is this supposed to be a competitor to the Palm Pilot?" What, Microsoft's tablet PC or the 2194? Neither really fit in your pocket, unless you have huge pockets. The 2194 was aimed at warehouses, factories and such. If you go into Home Depot, you will see another related member used on the carts for inventory control and such. My only point is, Microsoft is pitching this like it is a new, innovative product. They've been around for many years, however. Granted, none of them have used Windows XP... Telxon, the company that made these, are no longer extant. They fell into the clutches of their biggest competitor and were swiftly dismembered. Compaq wound up with the bulk of the engineers as far as I can tell. Rocket Logics got some too...