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From: dkb@cs.brown.edu (Dilip Barman)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Rooms paradigm that Xerox introduced
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Date: 16 Mar 90 22:19:07 GMT
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     I remember reading an article at least a year ago on this
subject.  However, I don't remember where.  Does anybody have a 
reference?  Rooms, by the way, is this clever paradigm that models
many different rooms, each with messy desks.  So one can choose
a room for doing text editing with a default messy desk 
corresponding, say, to one's favorite text editor open with
several windows, an online dictionary in another window, etc.;
another "compiler" room might have one's favorite compiler and
related tools lying around.  Ernest Tello mentions rooms in his
OOP + AI book, but doesn't give any references.
Dilip Barman     dkb@cs.brown.edu
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