langreiter.com plain, simple: comments-2002-07-31

LANGREITER.COM plain, simple

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Mittwoch, 31. Juli 2002

Schon ewig keine guten Monopoly-Stories mehr gelesen? Kann kaum schaden, ab und zu die Vergangenheit Revue passieren zu lassen: "There were 13 or 14 Taiwanese companies scheduled to announce [create SPARC] clones. Microsoft told them that if they proceeded, they would never see another copy of DOS or Windows. That, of course, would shut down the clone vendors’ thriving PC businesses. Only a few companies went ahead with SPARC clones."

2002-07-31-MS!SPARC

The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920

2002-07-31-eaa

"The part of the Humane Environment which is implemented contains its own Python development system as well as word processing and other abiltiies. However, it doesn't work like anything else on this or nearby planets. It's extremely easy to use, and very efficient, but to gain this ease of use we had to abandon current interface methods entirely and rethink interface design from the ground up." — Built by Jef Raskin and (?) [create Aza Raskin]. Manual. Currently Mac-only.

2002-07-31-humanenv

gavin 7932 days AGO
It would be humane to include a few screenshots of this great new interface.

traumwind 7932 days AGO
read the manual...
it looks a lot like VIM and friends from the features...
Not saying those are bad, but it's not as 'out of the world' as you might be lead to think. It's rather 'different from any GUI based editior you know' than actually that innovative.

Very intersting none the less!

David Ness 7925 days AGO
I propose ranking sofware on a `Hype-o-metric' scale. It seems to me there are at least two kinds of measures: absolute which just measures the hype, and relative which measures the ratio of hype to delivery (and thus may be directly proportional to the smoke and mirror factor).

Reasing Raskin's Manual immediately suggests something high on the absolute hypeometric scale, I'll have to wait for some delivery to make the relative measure. Raskin's description, as I read it, is oddly reminescent of an editor I used in 1964-1968, but that may be only an exercise in deja vue on my part.

chris 7922 days AGO
But it has CREEPing (tm) and LEAPing (tm)!

;-)

So, essentially, the Canon Cat was vi in a box?

David Ness 7922 days AGO
Thanks. The Canon Cat link is interesting. I still fail to get CREEPing, and find the description of LEAP tortuous---I guess I'll have to wait for a demo or an implementation to see what it is all about. However, Raskin's comments about `mousing around' in his manual make me wonder if he has done his measurments with a `single button mouse' (I suppose this might be `typical' for a departed Apple guru) or a modern `scrolling' mouse. AFAICS the usefulness of mice jumped dramatically with the introduction of the scroll button.

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