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Aucbvax.6481 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Mon Mar 15 02:16:33 1982 Hardware Driven? >From Jeffrey@Office-2 Wed Mar 10 09:54:31 1982

I've been reading WorkS mail for a couple of months. I have the impression that the discussions like current commercial workstation technology tend to be hardware driven.

Recently the Apple people (yes, that's Apple like in Apple II and Apple ///) have been consistently saying that they think the real problems are software problems. Unix may be a wonderful system for developing and maintaining files of source code, but how do you support any graphic application under Unix?

I hear rumors that the next Apple machine may support a sophisticated application development environment including a language like Smalltalk. If this is true, then Apple may steal the show for the next generation of small systems.

My impression of things is that with sophisticated "information graphics" software development capabilities, small computers can be really be made orders of magnitude more useful than the ones we are seeing today (and that includes the vanilla 68000/Unix systems).

I'd love to hear comments, responses - anything. Can anyone describe the high level application development facilities available through existing systems. I'm very interested in facilities which can be used to by software to manipulate sophisticated displays displays. The kinds of things that SUN and STAR are aiming towards.

Does anyone know what Apple has been doing for several years with all those computer scientists (I doubt that they are writing Apple II applications in AppleSoft).

Thanks,

Jeffrey Stone Menlo Park, Ca.

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