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From: karlton@decwrl.DEC.COM (Philip Karlton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.misc
Subject: Re: every icon is an object
Message-ID: <9954@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 12:45:39 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 19 12:45:39 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 05:59:50 EDT
References: <8705190042.AA14664@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
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Organization: DEC Western Software Lab, Palo Alto, CA
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In article <8705190042.AA14664@cogsci.berkeley.edu>
	boring!jack@cogsci.berkeley.edu (Jack Jansen) writes:
>If you view every icon as an object that can be activated, there
>are only two primitives that you need to do almost everything:
>
>- Activating an object ...
>- Feeding an object ...
>

You might try taking a good look at the design for Xerox Star user interface.
It first became commercially available in 1980 or 1981. The implementation had
more than one performance bug.

PK