[lug] a question of history

[Tkil]

i remember the term "star" in relation to the PARC windowing system.
let me look for corroborating evidence...  (also, smalltalk was
apparently pretty popular there, too, according to the retrocomputing
page:

   http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/retro/

some juicy info at:

   http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/html/entry/XEROX-PARC.html

and the parc site itself refers to "the alto":

   http://www.parc.xerox.com/hist-lst.html#hist2

a-ha, it's nice to know all that alcohol^Whard work hasn't yet eroded
too many neurons:

   http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/zdnn_display/0,3440,2113475,00.html

geekily,
t.