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From: binder@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Tim Binder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Rooms? (Was: Finder Improvements)
Keywords: Rooms, Xerox, PARC
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Date: 16 Nov 88 22:41:57 GMT
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With all this talk about Mac interface improvement, I remember reading
somewhere (InfoWorld?) about Xerox's next step (:-) in user interfaces:
Rooms, where each "room" is dedicated to a particular project you might
be working on. Each room seemed to be the equivalent to a Mac MultiFinder
desktop. Does any have more details or better yet, comments on this
interface? Could this be the next step in interfaces?

On a slightly different note: One thing that really annoys me about the Mac
is that it has taken Apple over 4 years to get the Mac to where the Lisa
was when it was first introduced! The Lisa had only 512K of memory, yet
supported a desktop much like MULTIFINDER now. Now, however, if you have
1 MEG of RAM or less, don't even think about it. The same is becoming true
for many applications. Are people just getting "sloppy" about memory usage,
or is there something I'm missing? Admittedly, the Lisa had a limited base
of programs, but then again, no development environment existed for it.

Tim



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