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 forPens/Winpad, PenPoint, Apple Computer's NewtonIntelligence and GEOS by GeoWorks.

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(1995-02-23)