Magic Cap

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Magic Cap (short for Magic Communicating Applications Platform) was an object-oriented operating system for PDAs developed by General Magic. Tony Fadell was the in charge of the platform.^{[citation needed]}

Magic Cap incorporated a "room metaphor", where the user navigated from room to room to perform various tasks (E.G. a home office to perform word processing, or a file room to clean up the system files). In execution, the operating system acted much like Microsoft Bob, though it lacked an office assistant.

Several electronic companies came to market with Magic Cap devices, the most notable of which being the Sony Magic Link released in 1994 and the Motorola Envoy, also released in 1994.

While it was competing with the Apple Newton, the PDA market in general had not yet come to fruition, and many PDAs failed to gain ground, Magic Cap devices included.

[edit] External links

• Archive section and "time capsule" dedicated to Magic Cap — Pen Computing Magazine
• "Making Magic" — a developer’s introduction to General Magic and Magic Cap by Richard Clark, Scott Knaster, and the staff of General Magic (from Mactech 11:5)
• Magic Cap Resources - A combination blog and gallery with links to Magic Cap software, documentation and other information. Also includes a photo gallery of Magic Cap devices.