[pholbrook]

I remember I was working on the desktop part of the system, and we were implementing "background copy" - and the hardest part was figuring out what the UI should be for doing a foreground copy vs a background copy. (The Star had tiled windows, not overlapping, so there wasn't a model of just letting a status window overlap.)

[pholbrook]

Whoops! Context lost when I posted that. What I was saying was .. I was a programmer on Star from 82-89. I went straight from college to Xerox - and it was like working in a time machine. Network based file and print servers, email, directory services, mouse, GUI, etc etc. All on machines that had at most 1.5 megabytes of memory.