Xerox Star

From: Alan Pearson <Alan.Pearson_at_cramersystems.com>
Date: Fri May 25 04:10:26 2001

> 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.

Wish I'd seen that. Yeah, ViewPoint/Star/GlobalView (whatever you want to
call it) is still a long way ahead of what we've ended up with. I usually
use GVWin on the laptop for docs etc, they only get converted to Word format
if they have to be sent outside :-) Admittedly it's only become usable since
the hardware has been fast enough to support it - a 15 minute boot time for
VP on a 6085 is next to useless, but it boots in 20 seconds or so on a
400MHz laptop. I wish I could get hold of XDE (Tajo), that would sit very
nicely in another volume of my GVWin virtual disk...

Al.
Received on Fri May 25 2001 - 04:10:26 BST