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I just have to ask why? What is so neat about it? Please enlighten ..

• rbanffy 16y ago
  The Alto was, IIRC, the first machine with a bit-mapped display, overlapping windows, Smalltalk, a mouse... Seriously: more than once we have lost a technology because we turned the other way at some point. The Lisa'a stationery idea is one example off the top of my mind of a great idea that was not only ahead of its time but ahead of our time. We install programs and run them to create documents instead of using a desktop to create a document of a new type that the program we installed happens to support. I like to joke Smalltalk 80 made Java 2010 look primitive. I am only half joking on that.