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Aucbvax.1794 fa.apollo utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!BENSON@UTAH-20 Wed Jun 17 03:48:04 1981 Looking ahead Since this list is supposed to be concerned with workstations, not status symbols for illiterate executives, I suggest a moratorium on further discussion of the Star. Cheryl's message should be the final splash of cold water on our hopes. Obviously it is not the Dolphin nor the Dorado; you will never see Interlisp running on it, probably not even Smalltalk. Perhaps someday Xerox will release our dream machine, but currently icons are outselling iconoclasts.

I would like to see peoples' thoughts on what software tools the ideal programmer's workstation should have. My feeling is that they will vary considerably with the application, but that it is probably a failure of imagination to presume that the same solutions found for time-sharing systems (e.g. Unix) will be the best.

-- Eric -------

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