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Back in 1999, John Redant wrote a college term paper called "Downfall
and Contributions of the Xerox Star" containing a "bushy tree diagram"
that updated and expanded a diagram originally appearing in a 1989 IEEE
Computer paper, ``The Xerox `Star': A Retrospective'' by Jeff Johnson
et al. (see <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/retrospect/">http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/retrospect/</a> or
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.35211">http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/2.35211</a>). An updated version
of Redant's paper appears here: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://xeroxstar.tripod.com/">http://xeroxstar.tripod.com/</a> .<br>
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Now Redant has started a new web site dedicated to expanding this
diagram to many more systems, with descriptions of each system,
cross-referenced and linked to external references. He's just getting
started, and says:<br>
<blockquote>My mission for the Wikia is to create a collaborative
online
encyclopedia about the evolution of the human computer interface, the
people and developers involved, and the terms that are used. It's over
a month old and a lot of what's on there is mostly stubs. Naturally,
it's a lot for one person to tackle alone. I'm looking for
collaborators, authors and editors to help hammer it into shape. <br>
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If you're interested, check out <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bushytree.wikia.com/" target="_blank">http://bushytree.wikia.com</a>
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