Visual Computing Systems https://nooron.org/know/computing_systems This is a knowledge base of computing systems, their origins, their creators and their relations with other such systems. It was created to modernize, expand on and support the ongoing maintenance requirements of the "Bushy Tree Diagram" created by John Redant, Bruce Damer and others: http://www.digibarn.com/stories/desktop-history/bushytree.html which was inspired by 'The Xerox "Star": A Retrospective' http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/retrospect/index.html
The Persons You know, a PERSON! When this gets more involved lets put it in the people_ontology.
Adele Goldberg
Alan C. Kay
Butler Lampson
Chuck Thacker
David Robson
Dick Shoup
Douglas Engelbart
James Gosling
John F. Rulifson
Kristen Nygaard
Mike Sheridan
Ole-Johan Dahl
Patrick Naughton
Ted Kaehler
Vannevar Bush
William K. English
The Institutions Institutions are any kind of organization, including businesses, governments, non-profits and so on.
Augmentation Research Center
Advanced Research Project Agency
Evans and Sutherland
Norwegian Computing Centre
Palo Alto Research Center
Stanford AI Labs
Sun MicroSystems
The Software Systems Software Systems are thought of as being capable of running on one or more Hardware Systems.
Alto
InfluencedBy FLEX NLS ReactiveEngine
DescendedFrom EandSprojects StanfordAILabsProjects
DesignedBy ButlerLampson ChuckThacker
CommencedInYear 1972
PrimaryURL http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-alto/index.html
Augment
ProductOf ARC
DescendedFrom NLS
DesignedBy DouglasEngelbart
ProgrammedBy DouglasEngelbart JohnFRulifson WilliamKEnglish
PrimaryURL http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/hasrg/histsci/ssvoral/engelbart/main4-ntb.html
Bravo
ProductOf PARC
InfluencedBy Alto
CommencedInYear 1972
Draw
ProductOf PARC
InfluencedBy Alto
CommencedInYear 1972
Evans and Sutherland projects
ProductOf EvansAndSutherland
DescendedFrom StanfordAILabsProjects
ReleasedInYear 1968
PrimaryURL http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/e
a FLexible EXtendable language
InfluencedBy NLS
DesignedBy AlanCKay
ProgrammedBy AlanCKay
ReleasedInYear 1968
PrimaryURL http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay68.html
Markup
ProductOf PARC
InfluencedBy Alto
CommencedInYear 1972
Memex
DesignedBy VannevarBush
CommencedInYear 1945
PrimaryURL http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm
NLS
InfluencedBy Memex
DesignedBy DouglasEngelbart
ProgrammedBy DouglasEngelbart JohnFRulifson WilliamKEnglish
ReleasedInYear 1968
PrimaryURL http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-Line_System
Oak
ProductOf Sun
InfluencedBy Smalltalk
DesignedBy JamesGosling MikeSheridan PatrickNaughton
ProgrammedBy JamesGosling MikeSheridan PatrickNaughton
CommencedInYear 1990
ReleasedInYear 1992
PrimaryURL http://java.sun.com/people/jag/green/
RanOn Star7
Press
ProductOf PARC
InfluencedBy Alto
CommencedInYear 1972
Reactive Engine
InfluencedBy Memex
DesignedBy AlanCKay
ProgrammedBy AlanCKay
ReleasedInYear 1969
PrimaryURL http://www.mprove.de/diplom/gui/kay69.html
Sil
ProductOf PARC
InfluencedBy Alto
CommencedInYear 1972
Simula
ProductOf NCC
DesignedBy KristenNygaard OleJohanDahl
ProgrammedBy KristenNygaard OleJohanDahl
CommencedInYear 1962
ReleasedInYear 1967
PrimaryURL http://java.sun.com/people/jag/SimulaHistory.html
Sketchpad
InfluencedBy Memex
ReleasedInYear 1969
Smalltalk
InfluencedBy Alto ReactiveEngine Simula
DesignedBy AlanCKay
ProgrammedBy AdeleGoldberg AlanCKay TedKaehler
CommencedInYear 1972
ReleasedInYear 1972
PrimaryURL http://msp.sfsu.edu/Lectureseries/archive96/realaudio/kay/smalltalk.ra
Stanford AI Labs Projects
ProductOf StanfordAILabs
DescendedFrom EandSprojects
ReleasedInYear 1968
PrimaryURL http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language
The Hardware Systems Hardware Systems should really have a slot on them called Ran which is the inverse of RanOn.
Star7
ProductOf Sun
CommencedInYear 1991
ReleasedInYear 1992
PrimaryURL http://java.sun.com/people/jag/green/