everything was invented in the U S and nothing happened elsewhere . It is true that this book has a n almost exclusively America n perspective on the history o f workstations, the only major exception being a discussion o f early work at the UK Nationa l Physical Laboratory in the chapte r on networking . On the other hand it must be admitted that th e self-congratulatory America n attitude is much more justified i n the workstation field than in othe r computing fields . While America n laboratories and ARPA wer e inventing the future of interactive computing, most European s tinkered with mathematical or internal aspects of computers . Some European contribution s might have been mentioned, though, such as the work i n Switzerland on, e .g ., the five-button "rat" (Nievergelt) and the Lilith workstation for Modul a programming (Wirth) . Besides the original papers fro m the conference, the book als o contains reprints of the followin g important early papers : ¢ ¢ ¢ Vannevar Bush : As We Ma y Think, 194 5 J .C .R . Licklider : Man Computer Symbiosis, 196 0 Alan Kay and Adel
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