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Viewpoint is similar to, but different from, Star
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Peter Rowley
May 9, 1986, 10:03:42 AM5/9/86
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One recent message implied that Xerox Viewpoint is the 1981 Star product
simply renamed. Not true. As delivered, Viewpoint provides generally the same
functionality, but it is noticeably faster, a good deal of the interface
has been changed (e.g. overlapping windows in arbitrary positions are
allowed now), and quite importantly, it has been unbundled. Star was a
monolithic program, but Viewpoint is a bunch of modules. Using the XDE
system, one can write one's own modules and load them into Viewpoint.
This is clearly important to allow 3rd-party developers to add to Viewpoint.
simply renamed. Not true. As delivered, Viewpoint provides generally the same
functionality, but it is noticeably faster, a good deal of the interface
has been changed (e.g. overlapping windows in arbitrary positions are
allowed now), and quite importantly, it has been unbundled. Star was a
monolithic program, but Viewpoint is a bunch of modules. Using the XDE
system, one can write one's own modules and load them into Viewpoint.
This is clearly important to allow 3rd-party developers to add to Viewpoint.
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