Sunday, October 11, 2020

While cleaning up I found this manual for Illustrate, which was implemented by Dawn Clarke and Dinarte Morais on Lisp machines, and modeled on the Xerox Alto draw program.   The user interface was nice compared to most modern tools.  One could do many operations with the keyboard or if you did need the mouse, you didn't need many clicks, so you could draw things very quickly.

Dawn M. Clarke and Dinarte R. Morais.  Illustrate Reference Manual, Tanglewood Design Note 12, 10 January 1985.  MIT Lab for Computer Science.