Xerox paid a few hundred of the cleverest people in America to invent the office of the future, and they did: the Alto, Ethernet, the laser printer, Smalltalk, cut and paste. Head office, three thousand miles away, was thinking about copiers. The chapter belongs to Alan Kay, who thought computers were for children, to Adele Goldberg, who refused to give Steve Jobs the demonstration, to Larry Tesler, who gave it gladly, and to Bill Atkinson, who rebuilt from memory something he had not actually seen.
This chapter has not been serialised yet. It will appear on Substack first, and this page will carry its opening when it does.
- In this chapter
- Alan Kay, Adele Goldberg, Larry Tesler, Bob Taylor, Butler Lampson, Chuck Thacker, Bill Atkinson, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates
- The idea it builds
- Overlapping windows through regions: describe each visible area by where its edge crosses each scan line, then clip every drawing operation to it.