Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!ucsd!nosc!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!eos!eugene From: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: History of personal computing (LONG) Message-ID: <1258@eos.UUCP> Date: 10 Aug 88 23:53:16 GMT References:<287@gecko.co.rmit.oz> <21053@beta.lanl.gov> Reply-To: eugene@eos.UUCP (Eugene Miya) Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Calif. Lines: 14 The book (proceedings) on The History of Personal Workstations, edited by Adele Goldberg published by Addison-Wesley is now out. These are some pretty old single user machines. Unfortunately, Alan Kay copped out and reproduced the "Personal Dynamic Media" paper. The Alto papers are good, and the LINC papers are not bad. Englebardt's talk can't be captured by any paper. Get your company or school to buy this. Another gross generalization from --eugene miya, NASA Ames Research Center, eugene@aurora.arc.nasa.gov resident cynic at the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: "Mailers?! HA!", "If my mail does not reach you, please accept my apology." {uunet,hplabs,ncar,decwrl,allegra,tektronix}!ames!aurora!eugene "Send mail, avoid follow-ups. If enough, I'll summarize."