Image objects vs presentations

[Paolo Amoroso]

Are Interlisp-D image objects conceptually similar to Symbolics Genera presentations? Can they be used in similar ways, for example for selecting a displayed object as input or manipulating it once displayed?

I don't have a specific application in mind at this time, I'm just trying to understand what these features do and when they may be useful.

Paolo

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[Tim Daly]

I worked on a Symbolics machine for a couple years.

Everything, everywhere, at all times was "active".

You could click on anything.

You could "drill down" all the way to the code running on

the hardware (which was a lisp machine). If you made a change

somewhere in the call stack the change automatically propagated

to all relevant things including recompiling. It was more like

"a living thing" than a computer.

All of my AI, Expert Systems, and Computer Algebra work was

done on a Symbolics.

Unfortunately I never got to touch any of the "west coast" systems

so I can't compare.

Tim

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