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| NLS: oN-Line System |
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The oN-Line System was conceived and developed by Douglas Engelbart and his colleagues at the Stanford Research Institute.
NLS itself contained many notable creations, including the following tools:
- outline editors for idea development
- hypertext linking
- tele-conferencing
- word processing
- e-mail
- the ability for the user to be able to program and configure the system
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To develop these ideas, the following needed to be created:
- on-line help systems
- windowing software environment
- the "mouse" pointing device for on screen selection
- consistency in user interfaces
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| These acomplishments were all significant achievements in their own right, but NLS was an integrated environment for idea development, with a strong emphasis on the visual - at a time
when users and programmers of computer systems had no direct contact with their computers like today, input was by cumbersome puch cards and output by paper tape.
Indeed, it is difficult to imagine the modern day personal computer without for example a windows environment or a mouse. |
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