The Power of PenPoint (Book)
The Power of PenPoint was a book on GO Corporation's PenPoint operating system, written by Robert Carr and Dan Shafer and published by Addison-Wesley. Carr was the architect of PenPoint and a cofounder and Vice President of Software Development at GO Corporation, and the book drew on his account of the system's architecture, design, and philosophy.
It opened with an overview of PenPoint — which the book described as the world's first commercial object-oriented operating system — and then detailed the class library's components, among them windowing classes, the user interface toolkit, the file system and embedded documents, the graphics and imaging system, and networking.
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Addison-Wesley Publishing Company
Robert Carr, Dan Shafer
United States
English
February, 1991
$22.95 (USA), $29.95 (Canada)
Perfect-bound printed book.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- The PenPoint User Interface
- Developing Applications for PenPoint
- The PenPoint Kernel
- The Class Manager
- The Application Framework
- The PenPoint Windowing System
- Recursive Live Embedding of Applications
- ImagePoint: Graphing and Imaging System
- The User Interface Toolkit
- The File System
- Resources and Their Management
- Input and Handwriting Recognition
- Text Editing and Related Classes
- The Service Manager
- Connectivity
- Important Data Structures, Classes, and Messages
- Things to Keep in Mind
- Evaluating Pen-Based Computers and Handwriting Recognition Technology
- Glossary of PenPoint Terms
- Index
Approx 7.5" x 9" (342 pages)
0-201-57763-1
VXIL8CZL0G
1991
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$22.95
2026-06-22
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