Subject: Comment on Byx new version

From: Yuan Jiang <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 8 May 90 17:51:05 EDT

I had my hands on a test version of the new Byx at J.B. Wang's
place.  Dr. Yan was there too.  I tried less than 3 min. just
to see the input method.

Be short, it's very impressive.  No doubt its underline priciples
are from (or shared by) JB Wang's ch-series and TianMa.  But it
combines all the good idea and has the best input method now.
It's a killer to TianMa (in term of input method.)
So hold on your Chinese WP purchase
until you see the new version of Byx.

You input by PinYin with or without tones.  It converts the PinYin
that you just typed when you hit the space bar or a punctuation.
Say, I typed "wo3bi4ye4yu2bei3da" (I graduated from Beijing U.)
and typed a comma.  It converted the sentense with Bi4 and Yu4
converted wrong (they become "must" and "spare, left over").
I then moved the cursor back to correct the wrong characters.
Whenever I move
the cursor to a character, the bottom of the screen shows me
the PinYin and other characters with the same sound to choose.
I can either type in a new PinYin or choose the right character.
I first moved the cursor to "Bi4", it did not show me other
characters other than "must".  Byx is pretty
dumb here.  I soon understood why.  I went to correct "yu2"
to "at" and went back to "bi4".  The screen showed
me more characters including the right one.  It turns out
Byx considered "ye4yu2" as a phrase, "amature".  Byx guessed
it must be "must" before "amature".  So it's not the
perfect one.  But it's about the best one.

I did not check other features.  If they also up to the standard
it's a big hit product.  At least the price is well justified.
Correct me if I remember it wrong: it does not have
traditional character support.

Yuan

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From: [email-masked] ( Huangxin Wang)
Date: Wed, 9 May 90 11:16:48 EDT

Byx input sounds pretty similar to Mac Chinese OS with the original PinYin
input or the add-on Cihui input.  Can you take a look at the Mac, and tell us
the difference of the two?

Huangxin WANG