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From: rene@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: long names and hardware...
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Date: Tue, 6-Dec-83 18:26:45 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  6 18:26:45 1983
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>>  As for bit-mapped graphics and "windows," I think the jury is still out.
>>Windows are cute, exercise and demonstrate the graphics capability of a 
>>system, and the idea is the latest buzzword, but a higher baud rate
>>(i.e. the ability to re-write the screen quickly with another application)
>>will address most of the issues that windows supposedly address. Does
>>anyone recall if Xerox ever did any research to indicate that windows
>>improve human performance?????
>>                                 Andy Cohill

I thought the idea of windows was to address a problem that
non-programmer users complained of - the lack of a cluttered desk. The
people buying systems for their office sort of liked having little
bits of paper strewn around to remind them of tasks they need to do,
with the current one on top of the clutter. When I saw a demonstration
of SCION's (neato!) Superscreen (I suppose it's copyrighted or
something), they told me all the windows flipping on top of one
another and crawling around the screen and changing size and so forth
were to recreate the cluttered desk of the busy executive.

					- rene
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