[OLPC library] [OLPC-Games] [sugar] Physics -- Newtonian mechanics.. for kids!

Jim Gettys jg at laptop.org
Thu Jul 17 11:38:08 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 16:57 -0400, Walter Bender wrote:
> Or, in the world of small, networked machines, you could use
> full-screen displays on multiple laptops side by side. (A neat trick
> first introduced in the Andrew window system at CMU.)

Actually, I think W (the predecessor to X) predates Andrew.  Just to try
to keep the history straight.
                            - Jim


> 
> -walter
> 
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Alan Kay <alan.nemo at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Or, you could even try having multiple display screens side by side on the
> > same computer (we used to call them "windows") ...
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Alan
> >
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Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
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