General Magic
A software company based in Mountain View, California. Products released in 1994 after four years in development include:
Telescript - a communications-oriented programming language; Magic Cap - an
OOPS designed for
PDAs; and a new, third generation
GUI.
Motorola's
Envoy, due for release in the third quarter of 1994, will use Magic Cap as its
OS.
What
PostScript did for cross-
platform, device-independent documents, Telescript aims to do for cross-
platform, network-independent messaging.
Telescript protects programmers from many of the complexities of network protocols.
Competitors for Magic Cap include
Microsoft's Windows for Pens/{Winpad}, PenPoint, Apple Computer's Newton Intelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.
Home (http://www.genmagic.com/).
