AT&T Co’s ambitions for the Hobbit RISC extend beyond portable devices and into what American phone companies like to call Customer Premises Equipment – all that clutter with copious wires coming out of it in the corner that is a company’s interface to the phone system. The company’s idea is to offer desktop devices based on the Hobbit and the functionality of Go Corp’s PenPoint operating system. One such device would be for use in the home, and the other would interface to the company PABX; by making them mains-powered, AT&T will be able to drive the Hobbit chip faster than in a battery-powered portable device. The idea is to enable users to communicate over the phone by writing and drawing as well as speaking, particularly when doing things like ordering goods from a computer system.
