In 1989, Arthur van Hoff was quite the celebrity in the NeWS community (Sun's PostScript based window system written by James Gosling, who later went on to make Java with Arthur).
At the Turing Institute in Glasgow, Arthur and his colleagues created a groundbreaking HyperCard-like PostScript-based networked user interface creation tool called GoodNeWS, later renamed HyperNeWS and then HyperLook, which was the most amazing thing anyone ever did with NeWS.
I moved to Glasgow in 1992 to work at the Turing Institute with Arthur, making HyperLook into a product and porting SimCity to the Sun, and we released HyperLook and SimCity for HyperLook simultaneously!
HyperLook was so far ahead of its time in 1989, that there still isn't anything quite like it for modern technology. Since we developed HyperLook and SimCity at the same time, that forced us to eat our own dog food, and ensure that HyperLook supported everything you needed to develop real world applications. (Not to imply that SimCity is a real world! ;)
At the Turing Institute in Glasgow, Arthur and his colleagues created a groundbreaking HyperCard-like PostScript-based networked user interface creation tool called GoodNeWS, later renamed HyperNeWS and then HyperLook, which was the most amazing thing anyone ever did with NeWS.
I moved to Glasgow in 1992 to work at the Turing Institute with Arthur, making HyperLook into a product and porting SimCity to the Sun, and we released HyperLook and SimCity for HyperLook simultaneously!
HyperLook was so far ahead of its time in 1989, that there still isn't anything quite like it for modern technology. Since we developed HyperLook and SimCity at the same time, that forced us to eat our own dog food, and ensure that HyperLook supported everything you needed to develop real world applications. (Not to imply that SimCity is a real world! ;)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_van_Hoff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Institute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook.README
http://donhopkins.com/home/movies/HyperLookDemo.mov http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/simcity/hyperlook-demo.html
http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/SimCity.README http://art.net/~hopkins/Don/hyperlook/HyperLook-SimCity.gif https://www.scribd.com/doc/77164708/HyperLook-SimCity-Manual
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77192848/HyperNeWS-Brochure https://www.scribd.com/doc/77192884/HyperLook-Product-Info https://www.scribd.com/doc/77199792/HyperLook-Manual-Part-1-... https://www.scribd.com/doc/77194415/HyperLook-Manual-Part-2-... https://www.scribd.com/doc/77199691/HyperLook-Manual-Part-3-... https://www.scribd.com/doc/77194936/HyperLook-Manual-Part-4-... https://www.scribd.com/doc/77195777/HyperLook-Manual-Part-5-... https://www.scribd.com/doc/77193909/HyperLook-Manual-Part-6-...