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Article #18760Re: environment's inventors
From: Mike Mackenzie
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1987 19:15
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1987 19:15
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In article <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes: > Well, Smalltalk goes back to 1972, which is 15 years ago. > The mouse was invented at Stanford in the late 60's by Doug Englebart. > I once saw a claim that windows were invented long before Smalltalk as > well, but I can't find the reference or substantiate it. The first reference I have seen to windows is in Arthur C. Clark's "2001, a Space Odessey" He has one of the crew members touching a "postage stamped sized picture" on a flat screen. This picture then grows to fill the whole screen. Arthur C. Clark is credited for being the first to describe geosynchronous communication satellites, looks like he also invented touch screens, & windowing. ( Although he may have gotten these from someone else ) Michael MacKenzie mm@arthur.cs.purdue.edu
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!ut-sally!im4u!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!j.cc.purdue.edu!h.cc.purdue.edu!s.cc.purdue.edu!aii From: aii@s.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mackenzie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: environment's inventors Message-ID: <877@s.cc.purdue.edu> Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 15:15:42 EDT Article-I.D.: s.877 Posted: Fri Sep 4 15:15:42 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 21:13:33 EDT References: <1987Aug28.123711.18714@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 16 Keywords: mouse window xerox