24 May
2001
24 May
'01
2:07 a.m.
On Thu, 24 May 2001, Alan Pearson wrote:
IMHO the Star interface was, and still is, about as
good as you're
likely to get with the windows-icons-mouse paradigm. Look at the fuss
Microsoft made about making the desktop more "document-centric" -
that's what the Star desktop was all about in the first place!
Something was lost when Apple implemented their own version of it,
which Microsoft then copied.
I was convinced after seeing the "Last Star Demo" a few years back (1998?)
that the Star interface was still years ahead of both Apple and MS. I
wish I can remember fine details (I can only remember one in particular,
where a person was able to create a mathematical formula the way it would
be written on paper, with a real square root symbol, a division with the
dividend over the divisor separated by a horizontal line, etc. and all
this in the middle of a text document) but it's been a while.
Just trust me when I say that Apple and MS still have plenty of catching
up to do to even equal the Star.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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