Editing PenPoint OS (section)

{{Short description|Discontinued operating system}}
{{Infobox OS
| name                   = PenPoint OS
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| developer              = [[GO Corporation]]
| source_model           = [[Closed source]]
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| supported_platforms    = [[EO Personal Communicator]], [[IBM]]'s [[ThinkPad]] 700T series, [[NCR Corporation|NCR]]'s 3125, 3130 and some of [[GRiD Systems]]' pen-based portables
| ui                     = [[Graphical user interface]]
| family                 = 
| released               = {{Start date and age|1991}}
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| marketing_target       = [[Tablet computer]]
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| language               = [[English language|English]]
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| working_state          = Abandoned
| license                = [[Proprietary software|Proprietary]]
| website                = 
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The '''PenPoint OS''' was one of the earliest [[operating system]]s written specifically for graphical [[Tablet computer|tablets]] and [[personal digital assistant]]s. It was a product of [[GO Corporation]]. PenPoint OS ran on a number of [[x86|Intel x86]]-powered [[tablet computer|tablet PC]]s including [[IBM]]'s [[ThinkPad]] 700T series, [[NCR Corporation|NCR]]'s 3125, 3130 and some of [[GRiD Systems]]' pen-based portables; it was later ported to the [[AT&T Hobbit|Hobbit]] chip in [[AT&T Corporation]]'s [[EO Personal Communicator]].<ref name="Kirkpatrick">{{ cite news | url = https://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/1993/05/17/77857/index.htm | title = COULD AT&T RULE THE WORLD? | last = Kirkpatrick | first = David | date = May 17, 1993 | access-date = June 10, 2008 | work = CNN }}</ref> PenPoint was never widely adopted.

Developers of the PenPoint OS included [[Robert Carr (Programmer)|Robert Carr]], who was involved with the [[Alto (computer)|Alto]] computer at [[Xerox PARC]]. He commissioned Dr. Tinker, the naming service company of Mark Beaulieu who generated the name 'PenPoint', using proprietary algorithms.