Thank you. Francis Girard
Le jeudi 10 FÃvrier 2005 02:48, Scott David Daniels a ÃcritÂ: > Francis Girard wrote: > > ... > > It's also interesting to see GUIs with windows, mouse (etc.), which > > apparently find their origin in is mind, probably comes from the desire > > to introduce computers to children. > > OK, presuming "origin in is mind" was meant to say "origin in his mind," > I'd like to stick up for Doug Engelbart (holds the patent on the mouse) > here. I interviewed with his group at SRI in the ancient past, when > they were working on the "Augmentation Research" project -- machine > augmentation of human intelligence. They, at the time, were working on > input pointing devices and hadn't yet settled. The helmet that read > brain waves was doing astoundingly well (90% correct on up, down, left, > right, don't move), but nowhere near well enough to use for positioning > on edits. This work produced the mouse, despite rumors of Xerox Parc or > Apple inventing the mouse. > > Xerox Parc, did, as far as I understand, do the early development on > interactive graphic display using a mouse for positioning on a > graphics screen. Engelbart's mouse navigated on a standard 80x24 > character screen. > > Augment did real research on what might work, with efforts to measure > ease of use and reliability. They did not simply start with a good > (or great) guess and charge forward. They produced the mouse, and the > earliest "linked" documents that I know of. > > http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/1968Demo.html > > --Scott David Daniels > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
