ROOMS, developed at Xerox PARC with Interlisp-D, is what we now call a virtual desktop manager. In this 1987 videotape its creators Austin Henderson and Stuart Card present and demostrate the system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WL9IRPOZ8c

To learn more about ROOMS see this overview paper:

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/24054.24056

And the manual:

https://files.interlisp.org/medley/rooms/rooms-manual.pdf

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