1 hr 14 min
Visi On, the PC GUI Advent of Computing
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More Visi-fun ahead! Today we are looking at Visi On, a visionary user interface developed for home computers. Along the way we will discuss smalltalk, portability, and how the slick graphics over at Xerox were adapted to run on smaller machines.
Selected Sources:
http://toastytech.com/guis/vision.html - Toasty Tech's Visi On page, with screenshots and downloads for emulation
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-06/page/n255/mode/2up - A Guided Tour of Visi On
https://archive.org/details/RosettaSmalltalkACM1979/mode/1up - Rosetta Smalltalk
More Visi-fun ahead! Today we are looking at Visi On, a visionary user interface developed for home computers. Along the way we will discuss smalltalk, portability, and how the slick graphics over at Xerox were adapted to run on smaller machines.
Selected Sources:
http://toastytech.com/guis/vision.html - Toasty Tech's Visi On page, with screenshots and downloads for emulation
https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1983-06/page/n255/mode/2up - A Guided Tour of Visi On
https://archive.org/details/RosettaSmalltalkACM1979/mode/1up - Rosetta Smalltalk
1 hr 14 min