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/ gnu.misc.discuss / coolidge@cs.uiuc.edu (John Coolidge) / Nov 21, 1991 /
> Note: once again, I stress that I'm emphatically _not_ claiming that
> innovation picked up _because_ of user interface copyrights, but merely
> that the two seem to be strongly correlated. That there has been much
> more work in computer-human interaction post-1981/2 is, IMHO, very
> hard to dispute. That the amount of money thrown at the problem has
> risen since that point is obvious. Whether this is because people now
> expect a return on their investment, or instead that people just got
> interested in CHI problems, is arguable.

How interesting...you don't even consider the fact that early 80's is when
the hardware technology got to the point where it became enonomically
feasible to have a graphical user interface on the desktop!

Having worked at a place in mid-80's that created a window system for its
computers at that time, my feeling is that the money was "thrown at the
problem" simply to remain competitive.

Jacob
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