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Aucbvax.2143 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Tue Jul 7 05:24:02 1981 Re: Spatial design for a workstation >From JWALKER@BBNA Tue Jul 7 05:22:23 1981 My initial reaction to your scenario is that the idea of selecting an operation is no different in essence from continuing a suspended operation. E.G. selecting INBOX is exactly the same as continuing a mail reader. The distinction is in being able to reinstate visual context. This is an important distinction of course, being made feasible by the new generation of hardware for displays.

One question though. This scenario description assumes that each thing you can select has one "reason" for being selected. The INBOX being selected means you are rummaging through it. Is this assumption likely to hold? That is, will the reason for selecting something always be unique or unambiguous enough that the right set of operations will become available automatically?

Jan

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