Windows XP Tablet PC OPS

[Brian K. White]

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Sent: Saturday, January 22, 2005 6:00 PM
Subject: Re: Windows XP Tablet PC OPS


I am not having any problems......One of my  customers wants to buy one of
these and asked me to ask the fplist if  any fp people had tried one yet.

ViewSonic Tablet PC  V1100 is a fully functional network-ready PC in a
convenient tablet form factor  featuring integrated WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi. 
866MHz
Mobile Intel® Pentium® III  Processor, 20.0GB hard drive; 256MB RAM provides 
the
power to drive your PC.

Microsoft® Windows® XP Tablet PC edition software.

Wayne Smith
Port Orange

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Well, I ran the 4.1 dos version in an xt emulator on a pocketpc (wndowsCE) 
pda for a while.
I don't expect you'll have any problem other than the obvious.
FP is a text based app. How do you type on a tablet?  How do you press the 
arrow/page keys? How do you press the F1-F12 keys? If you can do those 
conveniently, and the cpu is anything that runs x86 code, then you are fine.

One shudders to imagine graphitti strokes for Fkeys, or worse, popping up a 
virtual keyboard. If you can leave a virtual  keyboard up all the time and 
not obstruct the fp window and have the fp window still be large enough to 
read, that should be fine. The PDA I mentioned had that, the whole 80x25 
screen and a virtual keyboard including all necessary keys all fit on the 
screen at the same time so it was actually useable, if you don't count how 
slow it was or that the underlying emulator killed the 8 hour battery in 20 
minutes or how tiny the text was. :)

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