From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!cires!nbires!crp
Newsgroups: net.works
Title: Re: Responsiveness of the Lisa
Article-I.D.: nbires.107
Posted: Tue Feb 15 20:33:44 1983
Received: Fri Feb 18 02:37:12 1983
References: sri-unix.5156

Human interfaces is an area that needs a LOT of work before all of
our human brethren are going to be able to use computers to do more
than frustrate themselves and generate incorrect results at rates
never before attainable.

One person from our group here has seen and played with a Lisa
and he says that once an application gets cranked up it is
quite peppy (the startup time, however, is something else).
I suspect that they put a Meg of memory on the machine standard
for exactly that reason, but a faster disk is a WHOLE BUNCH
more expensive.

I agree that if you make something SEEM simple,
it had better happen fast -- and that isn't a bad start
on some "design principles" for the average person using
a machine to accomplish some work for which the machine is
only a tool (rather than an end, as it is for most of us).