Sounds a lot like 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 (it��s 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 Campbell��s idea was to bring a graphical-software

environment like the Xerox Alto��s 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-powerpoint

> 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

> --

> Sent from: http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Users-f1310670.html