Xerox Star User Interface: An overview

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Xerox Star User Interface: An overview
David C Smith, Charles Irby, Xerox PARC
CHI '90 Technical Video Program
Session: User Interface Technologies and Applications
Abstract
This film is offered as an historical document. It provides people who may not be familiar with the Xerox Star personal computer an opportunity to learn a little about it. It was made in 1982 by two of the designers of Star: David Canfield Smith and Charles Irby. It was intended to illustrate Star's principal contributions to computer user interfaces. Some contributions have had a major effect on the personal computer industry, including icons, a Desktop metaphor with a direct manipulation interface, property and option sheets, and generic commands. In some ways, such as its use of the Move, Copy and Delete functions, Star remains unsurpassed in the consistency of its interface. Other features, such as multilingual multimedia documents, are just now beginning to appear in other systems. In watching the film, the viewer is urged to keep in mind the historical perspective of 1981, when Star was first released.
WEB:: www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/chivideoslist
Published as Issues 55-56 of ACM SIGGRAPH Video Review.
Video Chair: Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University)
Location: Austin, TX, USA

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@PhotonCrasher 3 года назад

Wow, look how uncluttered that text editor is! How simple the user interface is! I now recognize this as a direct ancestor to modern day "Desktop Metaphor/ Windows" user-interface. How cool!

@poudink5791 9 месяцев назад

You call it uncluttered, I call it insufficient. That's obviously to be expected from perhaps the first GUI word processor and what Xerox accomplished here is seriously impressive, but I won't try to spin a clear lack of essential features universal to newer word processors as a positive. Also, even then it only achieves the uncluttered look by shoving half the options in a hamburger button, which are perhaps the worst thing Xerox has ever invented.

@DandyDon1 3 месяца назад

@@poudink5791 No.... There were many dedicated function buttons to do what you needed it to do. Much of the screen coding, margins, tabs, carrier returns etc. could be turned on or off depending on the view you wanted.

@iMajed 3 года назад

13:26 The hamburger button is older than i thought.

@PhotonCrasher 3 года назад

Excellent find! Thank you!

@SoundOfYourDestiny 2 года назад

I wonder what it did in that context.

@MrDuncl Год назад

Fascinating to see the Father of Windows and MacOS. Back in the mid 1980s I was using Racal Redac CAD systems. Because they used a large graphics tablet where everything was fixed they took a different approach for custom commands. A piece of paper slid under the tablets transparent surface had an area printed with all the commonly used commands which you could select with the tablet pen. On our systems the two zoom (which was about fifteen years ahead of any other system I used) areas got very worn from constant use. A problem with going from that system to a mouse was remembering that you couldn't pick the mouse up if for example going from one corner of the screen to another.

@MichaelSengers 2 года назад

I used to work for Xerox and was using this product. Mainly with the Xerox 6085. Nice to see this video

@steveavecillas1114 2 года назад

Do you communicate with other employees by network email at work ..

@MichaelSengers 2 года назад

@@steveavecillas1114 in those days I did. Also to email accounts outside the company. That was before emails were used globally

@steveavecillas1114 2 года назад

Imagine if xerox sold there star operation system to every pc companies. In the 80s .. .. ... .. .. So were there internet provides in the 1980s to access the internet 🤔

@MichaelSengers 2 года назад

@@steveavecillas1114 indeed. Xerox would have been a major player. They didn't believe in it and focused on copiers and printers

@MrDuncl Год назад

@@steveavecillas1114 The only other companies capable of making the required hardware back then were big rivals IBM and DEC. Xerox did get some shares from some small home computer company called Apple in exchange for letting them see what they were up to. I wonder whatever happened to them 🙂

@chauncygardiner9572 2 года назад

I used to be a Xeroid. Was involved in the launch of the 8010 Star in 1981. In some ways, with the exception of advancements in speed, memory & storage, It still beats anything out there today. The largest storage configuration was 3-100mb disc packs (yes, that's right - MEGABYTES). The software had to be hand-loaded from a giant stack of 8" floppys. Apple & Microsoft stole everything, just making minor tweaks (to avoid lawsuits) like using just documents & folders instead of doc's, folders & file cabinets. Also, moving, copying & replacing has never been improved upon. There's an excellent book out there called "How Xerox Fumbled The Future", that tells the whole story.

@doctorpanigrahi9975 9 месяцев назад

You should sue Apple and Microsoft

@chauncygardiner9572 9 месяцев назад

No computers were necessary to run it. It could be stand -alone or networked. After they stole the technology, Apple and Microsoft products became obsolete every 6 months. That's how fast things were evolving back then. Not just bad timing.@@csuporj

@MaxSDVXXXL 2 года назад

И это было ещё до создания Windows, Биллом Гейтсом. безумие!

@sharefail 4 месяца назад

It feels like the 80s progressed backwards. Even the chair is nicer than the ones they sell on Amazon these days.

@apl175 Месяц назад

and that's how it all started.....

@sashakoshka 2 года назад

i'm trying get a raspberry pi to look and behave exactly like this (although without the special command keys, cause modern keyboard don't have those)

@johnhanselman6371 Год назад

Anything that uses no paper must be the enemy according to Xerox of Rochester NY.

@M1cler 19 дней назад

Oj tam Oj tam :> chyba mi wybaczysz co :)?

@mirrorcatz 2 года назад

Steve Jobs : Bill, You're stealing from us! Bill Gates : Get real, would ya? You and I are both like guys who had this rich neighbor - Xerox - who left the door open all the time. And you go sneakin' in to steal a TV set. Only when you get there, you realize that I got there first. I got the loot, Steve! And you're yellin'? "That's not fair. I wanted to try to steal it first." You're too late. Steve Jobs : We're better than you are! We have better stuff. Bill Gates : You don't get it, Steve. That doesn't matter! 😂

@SoundOfYourDestiny 2 года назад

You have the order reversed there.

@MildMisanthropeMaybeMassive Год назад

@@SoundOfYourDestiny This is a scene from _Pirates of Silicon Valley._

@DEXXXO 3 года назад

Xerox are the wherry STAR on UI PC indurstrie , icredible at this time such an Genius invent. They are the real Gurus not Apple or else has only copied this Idea

@Beanmaster73 3 года назад

Apple stole this idea

@niveditasrinivasan7070 2 года назад

Pretty much.

@jeffreycarldean 2 года назад

Purchased. Or, more precisely, made a stock deal with Xerox for access to the Parc lab technology.

@jordanzish 2 года назад

Xerox management was uninterested and gave it away.

@lynskyrd 8 месяцев назад

ah no- get your facts straight. XEROX literally GAVE Steve Jobs their 'gold mine'- even when Steve Jobs himself said to them- 'Do you realize what you have here? You're sitting on a gold mine!" - the XEROX Execs didn't see it and didn't want to invest anymore R&D money to bring the thing to market full scale. So no- Apple did NOT steal from XEROX.