On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 12:26:36PM -0600, Vernon Cole wrote: > Then someone in Palo Alto hooked a mouse to a glass teletype, and the world > changed again. > > But the cursor still runs left to right, top to bottom.
The Parc group came along long after the days of the Infoton's and Beehives that co-existed with our KSR's (and 026 and 029 punches) on the PDP-10's and the 360/67 at CMU, and in any case the mouse was invented in 1963, it just did not get a good use until the late 70's. We still had a couple of the Parc machines around for game playing as late as 1983 I think. I actually still had my own KSR as late as 1989, but I gave it away before I moved over to Ireland. And yes, the first Glass TTY's were indeed a direct emulation of the ASR/KSR TTY's. TTY => TeleTYpe, ie the ASR/KSR, just another example of how immortal layers of technology are. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
