none wrote:
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> mark, you make everyone laugh with ignorance like that, Apple certainly
> did create the first PDA, they even coined the term!

I suggest you look before 1993 when Newtown came out.

PSION came out with its EPOC/SIBO PDAs before that. And before that, we
had many different "glorified calculators" that acted as PDA such as the
Casio BOSS.


Suggest you look into:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion

Its first PDA was in 1984, 9 years before the Newtown. The EPOC based
ones came out before 1991 (the MC series, but I don't have a date). 1991
saw the introduction of the Series 3 PDA (2 years prior to newtown) with
not only all the PDA functions but also networking with computers,
ability to install new applications and a fully pre emptive multitasking
system with interprocess communications. (EPOC on the 16 bit processors
(80286 equivalents).


Sculley claiming he invented PDA is just as credible as those who say Al
Gore invented the internet. I don't wish to diminish the Newtown which
was a great leap forwards in software/hardware.


> in other words, Nokia doesn't have Core Graphics / Core Animation so
> they are kinda stuck in the 90's compared to the iPhone / OSX.

Ironic that Nokia is based on Symbian which is the 32 bit version of
EPOC that PSION rewrote from scratch before throwing in the towel and
donating EPOC to the consortium that bought it (forming Symbian).

There were many things very wrong with the first versions of EPOC 32 as
released by PSION on its Series 5 PDA, but they were things that mobile
manufacturers liked: PROPRIETARY EVERYTHING.

It took a very long time for Nokia to start to do anything with Symbian
OS because it realised it needed a lot of work to make it useful in an
open world (like supporting standard image file formats) and of course,
it needed to rewrite the UI portion of EPOC to fit mobile phones (which
PSION had cleverly split from the kernel to allow just that).


Not sure if Nokia still uses the epoc proprietary networking protocol.
The protocol itself, first used on the Series 3 was full function,
similar to DECNET. From a PC you could start tasks on the PDA and vice
versa. On the PDA, you could not only get file lists from the PC, but
you could use PSION apps to just open those files as if they were local
(and save them as if they were local). For the 32 bit EPOC' (aka:
Symbian OS) only part of the protocol was implemented, and it was no
longer peer to peer, there was a master and slave, and no ability to
start tasks etc. The PDA could no longer access files on the remote
machine, not interface with another PDA directly.

The networking protocol, was first implemented well before the Newton
and was very much more advanced than any other PDA around.