Loper OS » Engelbart's Violin

http://www.loper-os.org/?p=861

designers think of computers systems today. In fact, Engelbart's belief in efficiency over ease-of-use places him in the fringe of computer interaction design today. That’s sad co

Stanford Interactive Workspaces Project

http://graphics.stanford.edu/projects/iwork/old/

(paper, whiteboards, computers, physical models, etc). and are able to use these simultaneously and move among them flexibly and quickly. The few existing integrated multi-device

DEC VAX History

http://williambader.com/museum/vax/vaxhistory.html

1 is entitled VAX: COMPUTERS FOR THE '80s and has a picture of a VAX-11/750 in front of a VAX-11/780. The chapter starts by explaining that The letters VAX suggest the premier fea

Trends and the Future of Computing and the Internet

http://mrp3.com/trends.net.html

of the art. But today's computers often have multiple cores and operate at speeds far in excess of 2Ghz, have gigabytes of RAM, terabytes of disk storage, and video resolution bet

Old, but Interesting Programs

https://invisible-island.net/personal/oldprogs.html

But I could see that computers could do more than compute. I tried writing a program to generate anagrams. That did not go well. Larry Tessler (a less-known Tesler ). advised me t
Thomas Dickey has been writing software programs since 1970, and discusses here some of the more interesting ones.

My impressions

http://galexander.org/laptops/mac/impressions.html

In the PC world, the computers feel shallow because I understand a little bit of almost every layer. I am familiar with the hardware from a user perspective and also (somewhat) an

Ross Anderson's Home Page

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/archive/rja14/

of security Our computers and communications use several percent of global energy, and have secondary costs too – particularly if you have to throw things away for lack of s

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