An interactive display environment, or knitting sheep's clothing for a wolf

  • Authors:
  • Robert P. O'Hara

  • Affiliations:
  • The IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights, New York

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '83 Proceedings of the May 16-19, 1983, national computer conference
  • Year:
  • 1983

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Abstract

AIDE, An Interactive Display Environment, attempts to improve the usability of a traditional timesharing system by exploiting the use of a powerful personal computer with a large, high-resolution all-points-addressable (APA) display as a terminal. No changes to the timesharing system are required, and existing application programs dependent on alphanumeric display terminals run unchanged. A sample terminal session illustrates AIDE in use. Ways in which the timesharing system might be modified to further exploit the display are suggested.