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Jack Schofield

General Magic bites the dust

One of the most ludicrously overhyped companies of the 1990s has finally decided to call it a day. General Magic developed Magic Cap, a terminally cute graphical operating system for handhelds. With cutting edge technology, a big market trend towards mobile computing, staff out of Apple (including Bill Atkinson and Andy Hertzfeld) and the backing of Sony (not to mention Apple, AT&T, Matsushita, Motorola and Philips), it could not possibly fail. Yeah, right. This account from Byte (1994) is a good guide to what the fuss was about.

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