Sounds a lot like OpenDoc. http://apple.wikia.com/wiki/OpenDoc Btw it was the Xerox Star, which was largely an early version of Smalltalk with the colors inverted to look more like paper (for desktop publishing). Some of the other technologies that came out of the Star were postscript (itâs inventor left and founded Adobe), Ethernet (its inventor founded 3COM), and WYSIWYG editing. The Star came out in 1976. Andrew Glynn From: H. Hirzel Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 11:16 AM To: Any question about pharo is welcome Subject: Re: [Pharo-users] Article about PowerPoint and Smalltalk Interesting... "The pair left Apple late in 1982, and by early 1983," .... "Pohlman and Campbellâs idea was to bring a graphical-software environment like the Xerox Altoâs to the hugely popular but graphically challenged PC." "Pohlman and Campbell envisioned an object-oriented software platform called Foundation, which was centered around documents. Each Foundation document would act like an object in Smalltalk, which a business user would stitch together with other documents to create, say, a report containing a graph of recent sales, a statistical analysis of customer traits, drawings of proposed changes to a product, and a block of explanatory text. Each element would be live, malleable, and programmable. " Thank you for the link --Hannes On 11/21/17, askoh <askoh@askoh.com> wrote:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/cyberspace/the-improbable-origins-of-...
I like the end "Meanwhile, the dominant mode of personal computing globally has firmly shifted from the desktop and laptop to the smartphone. As yet, no new vision of personal computing like the one that came from Xerox PARC in the 1970s has emerged. And so for the moment, it appears that PowerPoint, as we know it, is here to stay."
Aik-Siong Koh
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