Palm actually was established in 1992, at that time Go was facing a series of business crises.
Nevertheless, the latter's operating system-centric business strategy still gave Jeff Hawkins significant inspiration.
When Jeff Hawkins was working at GRiD Systems Corporation, he was the most creative member there.
This company was one of the pioneers in developing computers with handwriting recognition; the famous Grid Compass emerged in 1982.
Jeff Hawkins, who worked as a developer within the company, had proposed a theory on how to recognize text several years earlier.
Based on these findings, he developed a relatively mature handwriting recognition system, PalamPrint.
This was different from the approach of Microsoft and others, which involved comparing whole words with a dictionary of common words.
PalamPrint compared each character against four or five different forms of that single character.
