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General Magic was an American software and electronics company co-founded by Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, [1] and Marc Porat.Based in Mountain View, California, [3] the company developed precursors to "USB, software modems, small touchscreens, touchscreen controller ICs, ASICs, multimedia email, networked games, streaming TV, and early e-commerce notions."
Porat co-founded General Magic in 1990 with Andy Hertzfeld and Bill Atkinson from the original Mac team. The company built an early handheld communications device called Magic Link. Referred to then as a “personal intelligent communicator,” it was the precursor to the smart phone PDA. [14] The company also pioneered "intelligent agents." [15]
The Magic Link was a Personal Intelligent Communicator marketed by Sony from 1994, [1] based on General Magic's Magic Cap operating system. The Magic Link PIC-1000 [ 2 ] was brought to market by Jerry Fiala Sr at Sony.
The story of a failure that was, in fact, a triumph, “General Magic” recounts the short but brilliant life of an early 1990s technology company that saw the future too soon. Populated by some ...
After college, Fadell worked for Apple spinoff General Magic for three years, working with Sony, Philips, Matsushita, Toshiba and other consumer electronics firms in the "General Magic Alliance" to develop a line of personal handheld communicators. He started in 1992 as a diagnostics engineer and progressed to a systems architect.
After leaving Apple in 1984, Hertzfeld co-founded three new companies: Radius (1986), General Magic (1990), and Eazel (1999). [9] At Eazel, he helped to create the Nautilus file manager for Linux's GNOME desktop. [10] He volunteered for the Open Source Applications Foundation in 2002 and 2003, writing early prototypes of Chandler, their ...
Magic Cap (short for Magic Communicating Applications Platform) is a discontinued object-oriented operating system for PDAs developed by General Magic. Tony Fadell was a contributor to the platform, [ 1 ] and Darin Adler was an architect.
Raskin invited Atkinson to visit him at Apple Computer; Steve Jobs persuaded him to join the company immediately as employee No. 51, and Atkinson never finished his PhD. [3] [4] Atkinson was the principal designer and developer of the graphical user interface (GUI) of the Apple Lisa and, later, one of the first thirty members of the original Apple Macintosh development team, [5] and was the ...