Discussione: Da Lisa a Spotlight - Era tutto scritto
- 05-07-05, 23:10 #1Il forum è la mia casa
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Da Lisa a Spotlight - Era tutto scritto
Leggete questa (http://www.aresluna.org/guidebook/ar...cintoshdesktop)
intervista a Dan Smith, sviluppatore prima del Lisa e poi del Mac.
E' l'ulteriore dimostrazione di come Lisa fosse una macchina oltre 20 anni avanti, di come il suo team di sviluppo fosse composto davvero di visionari e di come certe idee non si siano ancora oggi concretizzate.
In particolare,, questo passaggio è straordinario, ci sono Spotlight e Automator e una gui rivoluzionaria e OpenDoc/OLE:
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"One thing in particular we had a heated debate about was the notion of whether a document had to be saved or not. A number of people on the project wanted the system to be as far removed from typical computer interactions, and be as concrete as possible. The argument was that when you write something down on paper, it’s always there. You don’t have to say “save” to prevent it from mysteriously disappearing, as opposed to a typical computer model where people think “I know I have something in the computer’s memory, and it’s temporary, and I have to make sure I get that information from memory onto the disk otherwise I’m going to lose it”. So there was quite a heated debate on that one, and unfortunately we tended to battle more toward the computer model, for a couple of different reasons. One reason was familiarity, the idea that users who had computer experience were more used to saves. There were some technical considerations too, having to do with how much information we had to keep around all the time when somebody stopped working on a particular document.
Another desktop feature was the problem you always have anytime you go to a filing system with folders buried in folders. This was something Frank Ludolph was very concerned about. How do I find my documents, how do I find my folder? With folders nested in folders, and having to double click and open them and search around, it became quite tedious to find something if you had misplaced it. Rightly so, he thought we were duplicating some of the frustrations a person would find in a normal office, having to manually dig through their filing cabinet to find something. A computer should be able to take care of that job for them, essentially doing an electronic search of the filing cabinet. That was a feature we wanted to implement on the Lisa, but didn’t quite have time to do.
Signal: How would automatic searching have been accomplished?
Smith: That feature wasn’t fully specified, but it would be primarily by specifying certain attributes about the item you were looking for, whether it was simply the title of the document you were looking for, or some key words in the document, almost like a database query. Something to make a search a lot less painful.
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Probably the biggest single feature missing in both the Lisa and Macintosh is the ability to automatically remember a series of actions and play those over again. One of the things the desktop did was to make most operations very simple to do, which is a great benefit to first-time computer users. But computer users expect the ability to give the computer a series of commands and have the computer record those, and save them from the drudgery of having to repeat those over and over again. Primarily because of not having quite the right user interface for it, and the technical problems involved, that particular feature was never fully implemented in the Lisa or the Macintosh.
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Signal: Where do you see the user interface going? What will future products look like?
Smith: What we’ll see in the long run, in terms of software products anyway, is a much tighter integration. You’ll be able to buy small tools that fit into the rest of the system and work in combination with all other tools. Say, for example, you’re trying to compose a memo to someone. In front of you is your piece of paper in electronic form, and you’re typing or writing on it. You want to do something like check the spelling of a word. Rather than necessarily invoking the spelling checker built into the word processing program you’re using, you simply use the spelling checker you purchased the other day."
- 05-07-05, 23:14 #2
- 06-07-05, 07:52 #3
A lot of the ideas people have had [...] require a significant amount of hardware. Some of those ideas are probably going to see the light of day in the not too distant future, as the hardware developers catch up with the minds of the software developers.
Chissà che idee avevano in Olivetti a quei tempi... e adesso mi tocca sentire i pistolotti su ricerca e innovazione.
Ma lasciamo perdere va... che poi mi ci avveleno.
- 06-07-05, 08:15 #4
stiamo usando pezzetti di lisa da vent'anni credendo che sia innovazione quotidiana.
Rivoglio OpenDoc
- 06-07-05, 08:42 #5andiamoci piano...
Originale inviato da pietro
ai tempi di Lisa si ipotizzavano scenari, ma la loro realizzazione c'è solo oggi.
allo stesso modo Leonardo da Vinci intuiva il principio dell'elicottero e del paracadute, e Jules Verne fantasticava di un viaggio attorno alla luna...
- 06-07-05, 09:14 #6
Dato che l'intervista parla della nascita dell'interfaccia del Lisa, segnalo un'altra pagina con una raccolta di fotografie:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py...&detail=medium
DarwinNE
- 06-07-05, 10:29 #7Beh, e allora?
Originale inviato da eorl
Mi pare che queste persone, anche proprio grazie a queste e altre loro "intuizioni" sono passate alla storia e considerate "geniali".
Non e' cosi ?
bYE
- 06-07-05, 11:19 #8altroché, e tanto di cappello!
Originale inviato da Jethro
volevo solo distinguere le due fasi.
perché detta come l'ha detta pietro, e cioé "stiamo usando pezzetti di lisa da vent'anni credendo che sia innovazione quotidiana" mi pareva un pò eccessiva, perché alla fine la vera innovazione la produce chi la realizza, non chi la intuisce, anche se per evidenti ragioni storiche il secondo è debitore del primo.
anche io te forse saremmo capaci di dire sarebbe bello e utile che un computer (o una qualsiasi altra macchina) facesse questo e quello.
però nessuno di noi avrebbe la più pallida idea di come raggiungere il risultato.
quindi onore agli svilppatori del mitico Lisa, ma non meno onore (anzi: io direi più ancora) a chi ci ha portato tutte le invenzioni ricordate.
- 06-07-05, 11:39 #9Ok, detto cosi' suona gia' piu' sensato
Originale inviato da eorl 
e sono piu' o meno daccordo te.
bYE
- 06-07-05, 12:24 #10
no no lisa certe cose le faceva sul serio, per esempio se collegavi una tastiera francese, l'interfaccia passava al francese automaticamente, prova con gli OS di oggi..
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