Tog and the interface (was: ID computer)

From: R. D. Davis <rdd_at_smart.net>
Date: Thu May 24 14:59:06 2001

On Thu, 24 May 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> I was convinced after seeing the "Last Star Demo" a few years back (1998?)
> that the Star interface was still years ahead of both Apple and MS. I

Back in the mid 1990s, I worked with a Xerox workstation (I forget the
model number; it may have been a Star) which was running some sort of
graphical user interface that was used for documentation of PL/M
programs for defense department work at Westinghouse.

The only good thing about using that machine was a Chinese puzzle game
that I discovered, which I spent many hours playing when I'd get bored
with the work, which I often did, to help quitting time arrive a
little faster. It was the most boring and hacker unfriendly machine
that I ever played with; trying to wander through, and find, files,
amongst a very large number of files, using that GUI, was a pain, to
say the least. Somerhere, I've got the model number written down,
along with the OS... I think the OS was [something]-Point (Viewpoint?)
or some odd sounding OS name. Fortunately, I was spared from that
boring work by defense dept. budget cuts. :-)

There was no hackworthy technical documentation about those machines
to be found anywhere, and no one there knew much of anything about
them, other than how to use them to edit documents.


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