ManaGeR

Also known as MGR

ManaGeR or MGR is an early windowing system originally designed and developed for Sun 2/120 workstations in 1984 by Stephen A. Uhler, then at Bellcore.

Inception: 1984

Overview

ManaGeR or MGR was an early windowing system originally designed and developed for Sun 2/120 workstations in 1984 by Stephen A. Uhler, then at Bellcore. MGR featured overlapped, asynchronous windows and an applications interface that was both machine and network independent. Each MGR window had support for both character terminal operations as well as basic graphics operations. It was controlled by mousing pop-up menus, by keyboard interaction, and by escape sequences written on pseudo-terminals by client software. The system was presented at the USENIX Fourth Computer Graphics Workshop in 1987 as "MGR - a Window System for UNIX". The entire MGR source code was posted to the comp.sources.unix Usenet newsgroup, Volume 17, Issue 1, in January 1989.

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Also known as MGR

Notable quotes

“Most managers receive much more data (if not information) than they can possibly absorb even if they spend all of their time trying to do so. Hence they already suffer from an information overload.”
— Russell L. Ackoff (1967) Management misinformation systems, p. 147
“Roughly speaking, I think it's accurate to say that a corporate elite of managers and owners governs the economy and the political system as well, at least in very large measure. The people, so-called, do exercise an occasional choice among those who Marx once called "the rival factions and adventurers of the ruling class."”
— Noam Chomsky (1970) "Government in the Future", talk at the Poetry Center of the New York YM-YWHA, February 16, 1970
“Systems analysis, conceived in a policy sciences framework, is the macro instrument of the systems manager for understanding, evaluating and improving human systems — which are defined as goal oriented interdependent units incorporating people, organization and some form of technology for control, administration or output.”
— Richard F. Ericson (1979) Improving the human condition. p. 621
“I think managers have realized that most software people are slightly brain damaged, that they're off on their own planets.”
— Eugene Jarvis (1982) From an interview with Wayne Robert Williams of Joystik magazine, September 1982
“The anxiety has been greatly increased by this government's multiplication of exams and emphasis on starting training as a middle manager in a computer company from the age of six.”
— John Mortimer (2003) Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life
“If you want to do something that's going to change the world, build software that people want to use instead of software that managers want to buy.”
— Jamie Zawinski Groupware JWZ

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