User:Gvnpeacock/PenRight! Pro

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PenRight! Pro was a cross platform development environment for pen based applications with handwriting input. It also included an MSDOS based Graphical user interface with pen and handwriting support.

PenRight! Pro was created by Grid Systems Corporation as a dedicated development toolset for the GRiDPad line of pen input tablet computers. It was first available only to GRiDPad developers as GRiDPen and renamed to PenRight and PenRight! Pro when licensed to others. The runtime installed as a Terminate and Stay Resident runtime API extension to MSDOS. The developer tools, GRiDResource, GRiDForm and Codestart ran in the same graphic environment.

Timeline[edit]

  • 1989 GRidPen API released for developing vertical applications on GRiDPad
  • 1991 PenRight released with 230 function API, PenResource, GridForm and CodeStart tools. [1]
  • 1992 PenRight! is released with support for any MSDOS based Pen Computer
  • 1993 - Tandy Corporation sells the GRiD to AST Research
  • 1994 PenRight! Corporation formed to license PenRight! Pro
  • 1995 PenRight! for Windows was released by PenRight! Corporation.
  • Oct 2000 - PenRight Corp purchased by Telxon and the product is renamed MobileBuilder.
  • Nov 2000 - Symbol acquires Telxon.
  • Oct 2003 - Symbol discontinues MobileBuilder


References[edit]

  1. ^ InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. (21 October 1991). InfoWorld. InfoWorld Media Group, Inc. pp. 19–19.

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