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Aucbvax.2425 fa.works utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works Thu Jul 23 23:33:58 1981 WorkS Software. >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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