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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."
The performance of magic almost always involves the use of language. Whether spoken out loud or unspoken, words are frequently used to access or guide magical power. In The Magical Power of Words (1968), S. J. Tambiah argues that the connection between language and magic is due to a belief in the inherent ability of words to influence the universe.
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 ...
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The magic knowledge contained in a pustaha is known as the hadatuon ("knowledge of the datu"). Johannes Winkler (1874-1958), a Dutch doctor who was sent to Toba in 1901 and learned the pustaha from a datu named Ama Batuholing Lumbangaol, created a comprehensive study on the content of pustaha.
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