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....was a necessary presupposition for the design of direct manipulation interfaces. Kay s vision of a Dynabook, a portable computer that would serve the user s information, design, and modeling needs, was designed with these principles in mind. The Interim Dynabook, more widely known as the Alto [Thacker79], was an early platform for experimenting with these ideas. The Smalltalk system was intended to be the foundation on which the Dynabook was built. It was one of the first computing environments to provide overlapping windows to simulate sheets of paper on a desk, with modeless, direct ....
Thacker, C. Alto: A Personal Computer. Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Report CSL-79-11, 1979.
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