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From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor (more references)
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <2249@eos.UUCP>
Date: 30 Dec 88 17:53:18 GMT
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Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya)
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In article <7487@watcgl.waterloo.edu> ksbooth@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Kelly Booth) writes:
>Someone who knows more about the history of developments at PARC (and how
>this work followed from earlier work by people such as Englebart at SRI)
>might wish to post a concise summary of the developments.  The ACM history
>of computer workstations workshop should have some of this for those who
>are interested.

Kelly you should ask Taylor or Sutherland.  Other references to consider:

%A Giuliana Lavendel, ed.
%T A Decade of Research: Xerox Palo Alto Research Center 1970-1980
%I R. R. Bowker
%C New York
%D 1981?
%X This book is a collection some of the best known Xerox papers
in the computer, systems, and physical sciences.  Hard to find.
This book was given out after the 10th anniversary of the founding of PARC.

Also the article on PARC in IEEE [You know, that other computer
society] Spectrum Oct. 1985

I also endorse the Workstations conference book and I hope a videotape
also comes out.  It was a great conference.

The Alto was also an important influence on my perspectives in computing,
but off to our NeXT toy.

Another gross generalization from

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