tag:www.post-issue.org,2010:/2009/2/13/publications-published-prior-to-march-25-1986/comments Mephisto Drax 2009-03-04T18:33:53Z Jim Capp tag:www.post-issue.org,2009-02-13:62:168 2009-03-04T04:31:28Z 2009-03-04T04:31:28Z “As We May Think” was written by Vannevar Bush and published in The Atlantic Monthly and Life Magazine in 1945. In it, Bush describes a futuristic device having multiple viewing “screens”, analogous to modern day workspaces. That the concept of multiple “viewing positions” was considered more than sixty (60) years ago, a “user interface with multiple workspaces for sharing display system objects” is obvious and does not warrant the protection associated with novel ideas. Here is a link to the article: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/194507/bush Excerpt: Consider a future device for individual use, which is a sort of mechanized private file and library. It needs a name, and to coin one at random, ``memex'' will do. A memex is a device in which an individual stores all his books, records, and communications, and which is mechanized so that it may be consulted with exceeding speed and flexibility. It is an enlarged intimate supplement to his memory. It consists of a desk, and while it can presumably be operated from a distance, it is primarily the piece of furniture at which he works. On the top are slanting translucent screens, on which material can be projected for convenient reading. Vadim Lebedev tag:www.post-issue.org,2009-02-13:62:118 2009-02-18T02:03:02Z 2009-02-18T02:03:02Z Publications about MVC - Model/View/Controller GUI paradigme inevented by XEROX PARC people in 70ies and used for Smalltalk environment. The publication dates at 1979. http://heim.ifi.uio.no/~trygver/themes/mvc/mvc-index.html Fuzzy tag:www.post-issue.org,2009-02-13:62:115 2009-02-17T03:54:43Z 2009-02-17T03:54:43Z Learning Considerations in User Interface Design: The Room Model (Report CS-84-16). July 1984. http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/research/tr/1984/CS-84-16.pdf alan buxey tag:www.post-issue.org,2009-02-13:62:110 2009-02-16T17:58:11Z 2009-02-16T17:58:11Z interesting name. one of the coprocessors in the Amiga was called The Blitter - and its sole job was to move images from one part of RAM to another - BLock Image Transfer. in the Amigas case, with planar graphics, it could shift eg sprites from one workspace to another and was used extensively in the draggable screens/multiple workbench environment. Fuzzy tag:www.post-issue.org,2009-02-13:62:93 2009-02-15T17:54:31Z 2009-02-15T17:54:31Z The Blit (aka 5620 terminal) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blit_(computer_terminal) was described in a paper from 1983 - http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/blit/