The Medley Interlisp Project
@interlisp.org
Official account of the open source project to preserve, revive, and modernize Medley Interlisp. This extensible graphical operating and programming environment has roots in Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).
https://interlisp.org
https://interlisp.org
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletops and tourss see:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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For more on tabletops and tourss see:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
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Guided tours and tabletops: tools for communicating in a hypertext environment | ACM Transactions on Information Systems
The author of a complex hypertext document is often faced with the problem of conveying
the document's meaning to future readers through a shared computer environment. Two
tools implemented in the Not...
dl.acm.org
October 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
A "guided tour" is a graph whose nodes are tabletop cards (table icons) and whose edges are links connecting the cards. You traverse a guided tour with the control panel at right and the result is a "slide show" of tabletops.
For more on tabletops and tourss see:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
2/2
For more on tabletops and tourss see:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
2/2
To learn more about ROOMS see this overview paper:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
And the manual:
files.interlisp.org/medley/rooms...
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dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
And the manual:
files.interlisp.org/medley/rooms...
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Rooms: the use of multiple virtual workspaces to reduce space contention in a window-based graphical user interface | ACM Transactions on Graphics
A key constraint on the effectiveness of window-based human-computer interfaces is
that the display screen is too small for many applications. This results in “window
thrashing,” in which the user mus...
dl.acm.org
September 21, 2025 at 9:05 AM
To learn more about ROOMS see this overview paper:
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
And the manual:
files.interlisp.org/medley/rooms...
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dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
And the manual:
files.interlisp.org/medley/rooms...
2/2
Ryan Burnside continued using Medley Interlisp to demonstrate developing a data plotting tool. In this video, after going over the main plotting function and introducing some window and graphics concepts he runs and extends the program.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1od2...
#interlisp #lisp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1od2...
#interlisp #lisp
InterLisp Tool Making Part 2
YouTube video by PixelOutlaw
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Ryan Burnside continued using Medley Interlisp to demonstrate developing a data plotting tool. In this video, after going over the main plotting function and introducing some window and graphics concepts he runs and extends the program.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1od2...
#interlisp #lisp
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1od2...
#interlisp #lisp