17 Mar
2017
17 Mar
'17
6:55 a.m.
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon(a)orthanc.ca> wrote:
I thought all this really went back to the work at Xerox PARC. The Alto
and so on; we had a few at Georgia Tech in the mid '80s, before Suns.
Arnold
The real
problem is that X11 predates the "GUI desktop metaphor".
The Mac proclaimed the bitmap screen interface to the world, but X11
(and Sunview) pretty much invented the GUI desktop metaphor.