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From: ucbvaxworks
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1981 23:33

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>From DREIFU@WHARTON-10 Thu Jul 23 23:32:44 1981
Part-III

The Hardware is one thing, the software is the more lasting concept.

Will the future software change?  Will we see more screen-formatting
packages, better user interfaces?

What about the programmer? Source level Debuggers, complete control
of the machine (micro-code all the way to the I/O slot which is
latched to the on/off switch)?

Screen this, and menu that.

     Will there be standards for screen definitions?  Not at all
     unlike the Core_graphics_standard we are seeing now, thanks
     to VanDam and Badler and company.

     Will there be "drivers" for One-User software?  Distributed
     power, shared computing, the questions of Queuing processes
     accross machines - across  the country.

     Local-vs-Long Distance networks.  How does one effectively
     integrate this?  There are more machines out today than ever
     before.

The above are just some thoughts/interesting topics to get
discussions going off over all of the innovations necessary for
PersComs.

Henry Dreifus

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