Why Palm Is Deleting Graffiti
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It’s moving to a new handwriting-recognition program partly because of a long-running legal dispute with Xerox. In 1994, the Apple Newton made its debut and proved notoriously incapable of delivering on its promise to recognize handwriting. Engineer and inventor Jeff Hawkins had a solution: a simplified alphabet called Graffiti that allowed Newton’s relatively feeble processor to recognize letters accurately, as long as you wrote them in the shape that Graffiti specified, with the strokes in exactly the right order.