Personal distributed computing: the Alto and Ethernet software

Lampson, Butler

doi:10.1145/12178.12186

Cited by 16 publications

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“…The overlapping approach supports both time-based and space-based multiplexing of the screen space by switching (between windows) and splitting (the screen) [16]. However, as the number of windows increases, it imposes time-consuming and potentially complex management tasks on the user.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Copy-and-paste between overlapping windows

Chapuis

Roussel

2007

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Copy-and-paste, one of the fundamental operations of modern user interfaces, can be performed through various means (e.g. using the keyboard, mouse-based direct manipulation or menus). When users copy and paste between two different windows, the process is complicated by window management tasks. In this paper, we propose two new window management techniques to facilitate these tasks in the particular case of partially overlapping windows. We describe an experiment comparing four commonly used copy-andpaste techniques under four window management conditions -non-overlapping windows, partially overlapping windows, and partially overlapping ones with one of our two window management techniques. Results show that our new window management techniques significantly reduce task completion time for all copy-and-paste techniques. They also show that X Window copy-and-paste is faster than the other three techniques under all four window management conditions.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Copy-and-paste between overlapping windows

Chapuis

Roussel

2007

Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Distributed personal computing systems are based on workstations, interconnected local networks that provided high bandwidth communication, and network servers that provide shared capabilities. 18 Inherent in the Alto's design was the vision that computers could be used to help people think and communicate. In just over three months, Chuck Thacker developed the brilliant design and realization of the Alto.…”

Section: Alto: An Interim Dynabookmentioning

confidence: 99%

Alan Kay: Transforming the Computer into a Communication Medium

Barnes

2007

IEEE Annals Hist. Comput.

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“…The Apple Lisa and Macintosh are perhaps the most familiar of these; Table 3 in Lampson [24] lists several others.…”

Section: Successorsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This paper describes the hardware that was the foundation of this system. A companion paper by Butler Lampson [24] describes the software that was built on the hardware base described here.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%