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).