Aucbvax.2145
fa.works
utzoo!duke!decvax!ucbvax!works
Tue Jul 7 08:03:14 1981
Spatial design for a workstation
>From DPR@MIT-XX Tue Jul 7 08:01:23 1981
Congratulations. It seems that you have just discovered the paradigm
of the Xerox STAR and Negroponte's Spatial Data Management systems. More
likely you knew about them already. With a little improvement in
Xerox's software, this could be the substance of an ad for STAR!
THe problem, though, is the same as the one on my desk--it get cluttered
fast with incomplete tasks. If certain tasks have long time horizons,
and certain ones have short time horizons, the result is a mess. If the
priority is not correlated with time horizon (since in my case there is
always more to do than can be done, requiring that some things NEVER
get completed), then the pile gets deeper and deeper. So now I need
three dimensions, and a way to hand tasks off to others in a partially
completed state if it looks like I won't be able to finsih them.
How does my secretary extract stuff from my "automated desk" and finish
it when I'm out--or conversely, how do I or a temp deal with her "automated
desk" when she's sick?
David
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