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From: dick@cca.ucsf.edu (Dick Karpinski)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Xerox Rooms
Message-ID: <2911@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 2 Jun 90 00:00:12 GMT
References: <1138200005@cdp> <1138200006@cdp>
Reply-To: dick@ccnext.UUCP (Dick Karpinski)
Organization: University of California, San Francisco
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In article <1138200006@cdp> goodman@cdp.UUCP writes:
>I hope Dick's caveat was offered in jest.  I've been a net participatnt


John, it was a plug for your show, merely couched as a caveat.

My brother-in-law Sean McGrath uses that IBM PC Smalltalk at
home (is it Smalltalk-V?) and wrote me after seeing my note
to say that he had implemented multiple desktops that evening.
When I inquired if it helped, he responded that it did, esp.
when following a tangent to what he had been engaged in.  He
set it up so that a single function key switches to the next
desktop in the ring.  Not too fancy, but it was a quick hack.

I like any system that lets one take an idea like rooms and
hack out a version in a day or so.  Note that the GNU project
now offers a FREE Smalltalk system, source included.  Many of
us now have the iron to use Lisp or Smalltalk effectively on
personal machines.  Unix was built (to play Spacewar, I think)
because Ken had access to an unused PDP-7 lying idle in some
storeroom.  Given the capable hardware lying about in closets
and storage facilities, I expect wonderful things to appear
in the next few years as teener hackers get their hands on
junker machines.  Let me know of the gems you discover....

Dick
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