On Mar 23, 2009, at 11:01 PM, John Vaughan wrote:
This is a bit of Ye Olde Schoole, but in '95 we were migrating a
"green screen" commandline-driven online equity trading system (one
of the first: Instinet) from keyboard-only entry to this newfangled,
glitzy, graphical Windows interface. One of the major challenges -
and a design mandate - was to include the keyboard shortcuts along
with the gooey/mousey UI.
AOL had this in '89
If you really want to get Old School, in 1985, at Symbolics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
), we had a combined window-based and command line system. (You can
see what a screen looked like here: http://is.gd/oE1s)
At the bottom was a command line prompt. Commands were context-
sensitive and had auto-completion capabilities. While entering a
command, you could click on any object on the screen and its semantic-
equivalent would be inserted in the command appropriately.
This was back 7 years before the introduction of Windows 3.0 and Excel.
The Symbolics machines had many amazing interaction design innovations
that have never (or rarely) been seen since. It was an honor to work
on them back then and I miss them frequently.
Jared
Jared M. Spool
User Interface Engineering
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