Re: Lisa Office System from Marcin Wichary on 2005-01-09 (lisalist1)

From: Marcin Wichary <mwichary_at_email.domain.hidden>
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2005 17:34:15 +0100

> My undrstanding is IBM investigated an icon-based GUI _before_ there
> was a
> Lisa or Macintosh. This interface was called DATALAND. The Lisa GUI
> history
> paper by Perkins talks about this a bit.

I think you mean PictureWorld... (Dataland was the one from M.I.T.) True, this one was from 1980, although I never got to read the paper [1] -- anyone knows where it can be found?

Apple actually confirmed that it used some of the ideas from PictureWorld, although I was under the impression that it was just a one-off research, and the further work on SAA/CUA was not its direct continuation. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[1] Schild, W., Power, L., and Karnaugh, M. PICTUREWORLD: A Concept for Future Office Systems, IBM Research Report RC-8384, July 30, 1980.

Marcin Wichary

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w:\> www.usability.pl >> Usability.pl

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