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There's an obscured window with the title "IPCamera". That can't be what it sounds like, right? In the early/mid 1980's?
- knuckleheadsmif 4y agoThat’s Dorris Wells’s desktop! She was a graphic designer for Star. She did many of the icons.
- knuckleheadsmif 4y agoThe tools is not what you think it is. IP here stood for InterPress. It’s capturing an image from the desktop as an Interpress file, the predecessor (again) to PostScript with the same imaging model as PostScript. It’s what Dorris used to print out here creations within XDE. The documentation is on page 154 of this tools document: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/xde/XDE_3.0_Nov84/XDE3.0-9001_XDE_Unsupported_Software_Description_Nov1984.pdf https://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/xde/XDE_3.0_Nov84/XDE3.0-900... “ - - IPCamera.doc - - Copyright (C) 1984 by Xerox Corporation. The Bitmap To Printer Tool. Purpose: To capture in an Interpress file a rectangular portion of a bitmap. Sources include the display in the same volume or debugged volume. Window: The tool has 3 subwindows. The first (top) is a msgSW where the tool says some things. The second has to do with the Capture Phase, the third with the Layout Phase and the fourth with the Send Phase of the tool's operation Capture Phase - specify a bitmap rectangle:”