ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1982-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041593.1041594
A. Tate
{"title":"OFFLOAD: an office workstation in a portable software environment","authors":"A. Tate","doi":"10.1145/1041593.1041594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041593.1041594","url":null,"abstract":"In order to exploit the ready availability of low cost, general purpose microcomputers as office workstations, an integrated environment has been assembled to allow for the straightforward use of a collection of software components. A closed user environment has been provided through the use of the OffLoad command interpreter which makes appropriate calls on the underlying operating system and utilities.The software components provided within the OffLoad system include a document preparation editor, a filing system, document formatters, printing and help facilities. Utilities include a numeric calculator, a mailing list and form letter management system, cash flow analysis and data management aids. Interactive and file transfer communications are provided from the OffLoad workstation to a computer network which provides archive and shared file storage, electronic mail, ViewData, expensive peripherals and many other services.The individual components of the workstation have common user interfaces and have been carefully integrated to ensure that their composite use is straightforward. Simple, but effective, aids are present to allow the user to configure the OffLoad system to personal tastes or particular office practices.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"55 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1982-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126613118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041588
Stephen A. Smith
{"title":"Computers computers everywhere","authors":"Stephen A. Smith","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041588","url":null,"abstract":"\"I'm really interested in computers but I don't know anything about them. How can I get started?\" How about a trip to the local museum. Kids and grown-ups got to try out many of the latest personal computers at the Palo Alto Jr. Museum in Palo Alto, Ca. Equipment was loaned by local retail computer stores and manufacturers. The exhibit run from the middle of March through the middle of April - nothing crashed, nothing stolen!","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114815005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041585
Kenneth R. Blochowiak
{"title":"Review of \"Decision Support Systems: Current Practice and Continuing Challenges by Steven Alter\", Addison-Wesley (1980).","authors":"Kenneth R. Blochowiak","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041585","url":null,"abstract":"Alter says that instead of \"belaboring the degree of overlap or nonoverlap between DSSs and EDP systems, we wi II simply concentrate on systems designed primarily to help people make decisions.\" (p. 1-2) The book contains many case studies. They are one of its most valuable features. Alter says that he was not able to find a general theory which could account for the success or failure of a DSS, or specify what features to include in one. He concentrates on identifying possible characteristics and implimentation strategies and examining various specific cases that illustrate them. He does not examine the use of micros for DSSs. The impact of human factors on the success or failure DSSs is well covered.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"292 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127415822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041587
Kenneth R. Blochowiak
{"title":"Smalltalk-80 at NCC","authors":"Kenneth R. Blochowiak","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041587","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041587","url":null,"abstract":"The NCC session entitled \"Releasing the Smalltalk-80 Programming System\" had much of the flavor of missionaries bearing witness to their faith. Several speakers alluded to the religious aspects of programming languages. And the \"apostles\" faith in their system was obvious.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125713946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041584
Morris S. Lancaster
{"title":"Back bytes","authors":"Morris S. Lancaster","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041584","url":null,"abstract":"At the time of publication of the article, Newt was only partially completed. A functional description of a complete Newt is given, including its three major subsystems: motive, manipulator and sensory subsystems. ~ile only the motive subsystem was operational at publication, descriptions and details of plans for sensory and manipulative components are ~iven. With the use of all of its subsystems, Newt will be able to scan, categorize, and alter its environment. The capability to periodically recharge its on-board power source by searching for AC outlets has also been provided for. Mr. Hollis describes the details of software and hardware for the motive subsystem and presents a few remarks on the subject of robot building, one of which voices the opinion that personal computing will play a major role in robot experimentation and development.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"122 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115511398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041586
Larry Press
{"title":"The architecture of future personal computers an informal note","authors":"Larry Press","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041586","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041586","url":null,"abstract":"This is an informal note, in the spirit of the open nature of <u>SisPC Notes</u>. It is intended to generate discussion, not to \"tell it how it is\".","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"201 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127029916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041590
David D. Shochat
{"title":"Experiences with the muMath symbolic math program","authors":"David D. Shochat","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041590","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041590","url":null,"abstract":"About 20 Years ago, I had the opportunity to see a real computer, an IBM 709. When I asked whether it could do Calculus, I was told that a digital computer could do numerical differentiation and integration, but that symbolic manipulation of the function definition was inherently outside the domain of the computer.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129741957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1981-04-01DOI: 10.1145/1041583.1041591
Jim Moore
{"title":"Mince: a product review","authors":"Jim Moore","doi":"10.1145/1041583.1041591","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041583.1041591","url":null,"abstract":"Mince is a screen-oriented text editor for use under CP/M (P). That is, \"What you see is what you get.\" At all times, the screen (less the bottom two lines) represents a \"window\" into the text being edited, and that part of the text file contains exactly what you see on the screen. This means that, within the window being viewed, all changes of any sort are always kept current. Likewise, as you move the window to any other part of the text, you see the then-current state of the text.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1981-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134345243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1979-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041578.1041581
Larry Press
{"title":"A survey of the CP/M software market","authors":"Larry Press","doi":"10.1145/1041578.1041581","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041578.1041581","url":null,"abstract":"Personal computing is not as new a field as the public relations staff at Radio Shack would have us believe. In the good old days (before OS), programmers often had dedicated use of even the largest machines. In 1966, Fred Gruenberger wrote and article entitled \"Are Small, Free-Standing Computers Here to Stay?\" which appeared in Datamation. His conclusion was that they were here to stay and that they would also be used as time sharing terminals part of the time. In 1967, Tom Steel wrote an SDC internal note which not only predicted that small computers were here to stay, but that the average person might be able to afford to own one. His prediction was for a $25,000 personal computer with the power of a 7090 by the mid 1970s and a market size of 5--20 million units.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123538124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACM Sigpc NotesPub Date : 1979-09-01DOI: 10.1145/1041578.1041580
D. Seeley
{"title":"Associative personal memory, a user oriented approach","authors":"D. Seeley","doi":"10.1145/1041578.1041580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1041578.1041580","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a personal information retrieval system, APM, written in PASCAL for small computers. The motivation is to help the user to keep abreast of information in rapidly growing areas and to do research. It has been modeled after the Community Memory system which has been successful in store-front community computer situations in the past. However, APM represents a significant extension in its inclusion of associative structures, its expanded user-oriented design, and in its inherent extendibility. It should be particularly suitable for both individual retrieval systems and as a basis for a networked community of systems.Along with describing a typical command language and its base implementation, the associative structures that compliment the open-ended keyword design are detailed. Particularly useful is the treatment of these structures by the same internal operations that are used for the retrieval of the messages themselves. A spin-off is the capability of having the system respond to the individual's own conceptual structures rather than rigidly-designed ones. The implication of this to large-scale sharing of information between APM nodes in co-operative networks are discussed.The user-oriented design is essentially achieved by putting all of the system-user interactions on the same basis as messages in the data-base. This fact greatly enhances the flexibility required to meet the requirements of particular users. By making the alterations to interactions straightforward, the resulting system can evolve without the obstacles of \"encrusted\" code. Much of the internal operation of APM can also be handled in this manner.As a result of this experience with APM, several guidelines are described for the development of user-oriented software in the personal computing field. A notion of \"appropriate software\" is elaborated. Finally, extensions to APM are discussed including: a) using meta-message structures such as \"presentation scripts\" and \"development skeletons\", and b) using an associative data-base as a context for interactive modelling.","PeriodicalId":396584,"journal":{"name":"ACM Sigpc Notes","volume":"29 5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1979-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116220205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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