dec/hp research lib technical reports, 1981 - 2002

interesting papers about the work done at src, the dec system research center, which was set up 1984 and had a well known figure as director: robert w. taylor, who before managed the famous group at xerox parc and was director at arpa, ipto, where he got the arpanet project up and running.

the first 99 reports compiled.

about user interfaces, 1987

The dialog paradigm comes from the Macintosh environment [Apple 85], with roots in work done at Xerox PARC. The Macintosh Resource Editor also includes a dialog editor. However, Macintosh dialogs do not provide any abstraction: dialog clients directly access the dialog components.

The stimulus for building a dialog editor came from a timely talk by Jean-Marie Hullot about a user interface editor in a Lisp environment, which later developed into the ExperTelligence Interface Builder [Hullot 86, Hullot 87]. The latter program turned out to be very similar to this work, modulo the diversity of the underlying environments. | Building User Interfaces by Direct Manipulation, Luca Cardelli