Dynabook

From: Max Eskin <kurtkilgor_at_bigfoot.com>
Date: Sun Jan 3 15:27:20 1999

I read a little bit about the concepts of the Dynabook, mouse, and other
stuff in Steven Levy's macintosh book Insanely Great. However, I would like
to know more. I have heard on this list that the research at PARC, and
their products, are related to this and that Smalltalk was an attempt at
the sort of operating system/programming language necessary for a true
Dynabook. I also looked on the net and I didn't find a whole lot.

But was the Alto the only such attempt ever made? I am discounting all of
the cheap GUIs based on it like MacOS and GEM. Were there any _real_ ones?
It seems the Apple Newton is somehow related, and I could see why, but I
discount it from coming close because it is an extremely inflexible system,
just like MacOS.

Are there any ongoing projects?

I would appreciate any insight
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Received on Sun Jan 03 1999 - 15:27:20 GMT