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The Mac calculator's original design came from letting Steve play with menus
- duxup 1y agoSorry, title too long so I struggled to shorten it. Original tittle: The Mac calculator’s original design came from letting Steve Jobs play with menus for ten minutes
- pestatije 1y agosure, and it was the day after the visit to Xerox Parc
- cben 1y agoI'm not sure of the timing (and whether you're sarcastic) but yeah, I found it funny compared to PARC showing Steve Jobs how the Smalltalk environment allowing modifying GUI behavior at run-time let them iterate quickly, sometimes in front of users (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg&lc=UgwYCZ7PefOXOcqAlxJ4AaABAg&t=39m38s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uknEhXyZgsg&lc=UgwYCZ7PefOXO...). I guess https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html https://www.folklore.org/Calculator_Construction_Set.html is the closest you get with a compiled language :-) P.S. https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/parc.html has good historical context on that visit(s)