17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
9:06 p.m.
I beg to differ. The Star not only pioneered the WISIWYG application
presentation also the concept of the desktop. The whole conscept of
dropping documents as icons on the desktop appears to have orginated there.
Of course, as with a lot of nifty stuff PARC and the other Xerox research
guys came up with, it never really saw wholesale product development.
-----Original Message-----
From: TUHS [mailto:tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org] On Behalf Of Noel Chiappa
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 9:06 AM
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Cc: jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] X, Suntools, and the like
From: "Ron Natalie"
I think most people will attribute the desktop
metaphor to Xerox.
Strictly speaking, to Smalltalk (from PARC); things like Bravo, and the
basic user command interface on the Alto (I forget what its name was),
didn't have any concept of windows/desktop (although Bravo did use the
bitmap screen).
Noel