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Aucbvax.6491 fa.works utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!works Mon Mar 15 06:03:10 1982 [decvax!watmath!watarts!plrowley at Berkeley: Window Manage...] >From WMARTIN@Office-3 Wed Mar 10 14:21:18 1982 As far as I can determine, these two messages were not included in 14A but were sent out during the non-digest period. Do you want to edit them onto 14A or create a 14B appended on that same file?

Nit -- it is spelled "hiatus", not "haitus"; took me a while trying to FTP the file before I noticed that!

Will Martin ***********

Begin forwarded messages Mail from BRL rcvd at 25-Feb-82 0035-PST Date: 24 Feb 1982 2313-PST From: Bill Nowicki <CSD.NOWICKI@SU-SCORE> To: Jeffrey at OFFICE-2 Cc: works at MIT-AI Subject: Re: Wicat Graphics In-Reply-To: Your message of 24-Feb-82 2042-PST Via: Mit-Ai; 25 Feb 82 3:07-EDT Brl-Bmd; 25 Feb 82 3:12-EDT

A slight correction from that last note about Wicat vs. the SUN workstation: The Forward Technology graphics and CPU boards are not only patterned after the SUN boards, they ARE the SUN boards. The boards are being licensed on a non-exclusive basis in order to promote them as de facto standards (as Multibus and Ethernet) and share software development effort.

I think the SUN graphics are impressive as well, but I'm biased. -- Bill -------

-------------------- Mail from BRL rcvd at 25-Feb-82 0044-PST Date: 25 Feb 1982 00:16:45-PST From: decvax!watmath!watarts!plrowley at Berkeley To: watmath!decvax!ucbvax!works at mit-mc Subject: Window Management Via: Mit-Ai; 25 Feb 82 3:18-EDT Brl-Bmd; 25 Feb 82 3:23-EDT

I am looking for information on window management strategies and peoples' experience with them (likes, dislikes, etc.). I'd appreciate any pointers to reports on the subject, esp. those about designs based on the results of psychological experimentation. Specifically, I've read that the Star designers spent some tens of man- years designing their user interface and laboratory-tested their theories. Have the results of this experimentation been reported in print? Finally, what do people think of overlapping windows? As I've not used a window-oriented system, I hesitate to venture an opinion, but experience with cluttered desks suggests to me that I wouldn't like overlapping windows. Of course, if the windows aren't all on the screen, partially hidden or not, they have to be catalogued in some manner. Does anyone know of any such cataloguing system? peter rowley, univ. of waterloo

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