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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Garbage can-like icons
Message-ID: <4082@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 5 May 89 02:38:22 GMT
References: <8113@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <8113@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>, lrr@Princeton.EDU (Lawrence R. Rogers) writes:
> Suppose you wanted to build a tool that works like the garbage
> can whereby you move files to it. Say you wanted to call it TeX
> and that to format you would move an icon and then the file as
> formatted would appear on your favorite printer.

The original Window/Icon/Mouse user interface on the Xerox Star office
automation system worked this way. In fact that was the way ALL the commands
behaved. I have often wondered why this rather intuitive user interface
was abandoned in favor of double-clicking.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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