In the mid-1980s when the Chinese character entry systems Cangjie and Dayi were the talk of the domestic computer industry, Hsu Wen-hsing, who had just returned from doctoral studies in Japan, held a contrarian's view about this technology. Hsu believed that systems capable of deciphering handwritten Chinese characters would end up being the most important input systems.
一九八○年代中期，當國內正熱烈討論倉頡碼、大易碼等中文鍵盤輸入法時，甫自日本歸國的許文星卻獨排眾議，認為未來最重要的應是手寫的中文辨識系統，一面寫、一面認，完全 online 同步進行。