Augmentation Research Center - Revision history

Jnc: Main 'product' was the NLS

2024-03-03T19:36:33Z

Main 'product' was the NLS

Larsbrinkhoff: PDP-10 User.

2024-01-10T08:16:14Z

PDP-10 User.

Jnc: Key predecessor to the ground-breaking work done at PARC

2023-12-25T12:56:56Z

Key predecessor to the ground-breaking work done at PARC

Larsbrinkhoff: A little bit about SRI-ARC.

2023-10-12T11:27:36Z

A little bit about SRI-ARC.

Jnc: typo

2023-10-07T11:41:42Z

typo

Jnc: A good start

2023-10-06T20:41:56Z

A good start

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The '''Augmentation Research Center''' (usually given as the acronym, '''ARC''') was a research group started by [[Douglas Engelbart]] at the [[SRI International|Stanford Research Institute]]. It did work in ground-breaking work in the areas of [[user interface]]s and [[application]]s.

Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]].

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==Further reading==

* Thierry Bardini, ''Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing'', Stanford University Press, 2000
* John Markoff, ''What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry'', Viking Press, 2005 - covers much else, but has good coverage of the history of ARC, and work there
* M. Mitchell Waldrop, ''The Dream Machine'', Viking Penguin, 2001 - Licklider, who had been thinking along the same lines, was an early backer of ARC

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 Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]]. Ideas and people from ARC were key 'seeds' to the ground-breaking work done at [[Xerox PARC]].
 The group had an [[ARPANET]] [[host]] called SRI-ARC, which was initially a [[KA10]].  It was running a [[TENEX]] variant called [[August]].
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 ==Further reading==
-*  Thierry Bardini, ''Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing'', Stanford University Press, 2000
+*  Thierry Bardini, ''Bootstrapping: Douglas Engelbart, Coevolution, and the Origins of Personal Computing'', Stanford University Press, 2000 - displays limited understanding of some of the technical concepts, but otherwise good
 * John Markoff, ''What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry'', Viking Press, 2005 - covers much else, but has good coverage of the history of ARC, and work there
 * M. Mitchell Waldrop, ''The Dream Machine'', Viking Penguin, 2001 - Licklider, who had been thinking along the same lines, was an early backer of ARC

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 The '''Augmentation Research Center''' (usually given as the acronym, '''ARC''') was a research group started by [[Douglas Engelbart]] at the [[SRI International|Stanford Research Institute]]. It did ground-breaking work in the areas of [[user interface]]s and [[application]]s.
-Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]].
+Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]]. Ideas and people from ARC were key 'seeds' to the ground-breaking work done at [[Xerox PARC]].
 The group had an [[ARPANET]] [[host]] called SRI-ARC, which was initially a [[KA10]].  It was running a [[TENEX]] variant called [[August]].

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		+	The group had an [[ARPANET]] [[host]] called SRI-ARC, which was initially a [[KA10]]. It was running a [[TENEX]] variant called [[August]].

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−	The '''Augmentation Research Center''' (usually given as the acronym, '''ARC''') was a research group started by [[Douglas Engelbart]] at the [[SRI International\|Stanford Research Institute]]. It did ~~work in~~ ground-breaking work in the areas of [[user interface]]s and [[application]]s.	+	The '''Augmentation Research Center''' (usually given as the acronym, '''ARC''') was a research group started by [[Douglas Engelbart]] at the [[SRI International\|Stanford Research Institute]]. It did ground-breaking work in the areas of [[user interface]]s and [[application]]s.

	Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]].		Among their notable innovations were the invention of the [[mouse]], 'cut and pasting' of text blocks, and [[hypertext]].