The Mesa Programming Environment
History
User interface overview
Programming tools
Other tools
Lessons
History of Mesa programming facilities
1971 MPS/MPL project PARC/SRI.
1974 Bootstrap onto Alto begins.
1976 Alto based system.
1977 Mesa 3interfaces, binding (users).
1980 Mesa 6mostly integrated environment, last Alto version.
1981 Mesa 7All Pilot Offices, still one-thing-at-a-time.
1982 Mesa 8Personal timesharing, new file system.
1983 Mesa 10Input focus, TIP, NS protocols
1984 Mesa 11Pilot kernel redesign, "minimal" language/environment changes
Environment Overview
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