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by bitsavers 4y ago
Web sites that use a font where you can't tell the difference between I and l Al is not an AI
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It's my site and domain. Thanks for using it. It started out as a way to push out primary information sources that didn't exist anywhere else.
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Besides books, there are the Annals of the History of Computing, now published by IEEE.
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My reaction to the IBM papers is "Information Age Taylorism"
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by bitsavers 4y ago
Xerox was very protective of the UI work going on for Star. The Lisa UI papers go into the details of how Apple's UI evolved. From another thread https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=..
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by bitsavers 4y ago
There's lots of fun Silicon Valley 80's workstation folklore around the MIT 68K PCC port, Unisoft, and Silicon Valley Software's Pascal, Basic and Fortran products. Fun fact that the Sun 1 ran Unisoft Unix before the 68010 &#
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by bitsavers 4y ago
It was an influence on the use of icons in the Lisa UI, referenced by the other papers in the same directory. Note the original comment was the commercialization of the graphical UI. This paper was also before the release of the Xerox Star
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by bitsavers 4y ago
The designs are all essentially the same, two levels of high speed SRAMs to give you segment/page tables. Some designs supported bigger SRAMS for more contexts. The schematics are all up on bitsavers. Originally, I had thought they cam
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by bitsavers 4y ago
difficult to find IBM research paper referenced in histories of Apple Lisa UI development
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Pictureworld: A Concept for Future Office Systems (1980) [pdf](bitsavers.org)
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The Corvus Concept beat it to market, had a higher resolution bitmapped screen with square pixels, was built on top of the same SVS Pascal compiler as Lisa, and vanished because it's software was primitive, barely using the capabilitie