Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2010
Basically, this workbench is composed of a pair of storage cabinets, on which rests a rugged work top. The exact design of the storage cabinets depends on the kind of work you do, the kind of tools you use, the amount of space you have.
— Homeowner's How-to Treasury, Popular Science, 1976This chapter describes a design and implementation of a user support tool that embodies the reuse properties suggested in Chapters 4 through 7, and the workspace organization of Chapter 8. Called WORKBENCH, the system is a graphical window-based front end to UNIX csh. The facilities and user interface are described in the first section, along with the rationale behind its design. WORKBENCH is not an end in itself. Although recently made available to selected members of the University of Calgary's Department of Computer Science and now used by several people, it serves here as an exploration of a workspace design. It is not formally evaluated; experimental appraisal is neither credible nor necessary at this early stage. Rather, the intent is to discover how feasible it is to build a workspace, to note initial pragmatic considerations arising from its use, and to suggest research areas motivated by problems encountered or envisaged. These issues are covered in the second section.
The WORKBENCH system
WORKBENCH is a window-based facility that allows people to reuse and structure their on-line UNIX csh activities.
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.