This is the group at Tektronix that built the LT-1000 semiconductor tester. Rik Smoody got the project started on Smalltalk. Ward And Kent introduced a handful of patterns in a crash effort to redirect the effort. The patterns have been recounted many times in the History Of Patterns starting with an early OOPSLA (c2.com ).
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The patterns were presented verbally. I've only bothered to write them down now that they are so often cited. Most recently I rewrote them as a series of sketches on an index card ...
I got to present this with one of those nifty TV overhead cameras that could zoom in and fill the screen with the images. You may notice that Short Menus also provides the means to change tasks and that Standard Panes was inadvertently left out all together. -- Ward Cunningham
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