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Unix Review Magazine Interviews Larry Tesler

They discuss Tesler's involvement with Xerox, Apple and office automation with Unix.

Arguing that OA systems needed friendlier interfaces in order to grow, Tesler helped pioneer a series of changes designed to make the machines look “more like familiar objects" to their users. Making user interfaces simpler and offering better training will lessen the time it takes to learn these systems, and it will also improve the response people have to them. He doesn’t realize that the seconds he’s saved by not having to hit a confirmation key or by not having to type an extra character is nothing compared to the time he’s lost trying to find a backup tape and make all his changes over again.

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