On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:11 PM Mark Green via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The desk top metaphor goes back to at least Doug Englebarts work in the > 1960s. There were no icons, but the basic metaphor was there. > > You need to be careful when you talk about Smalltalk since there were > several quite different versions of it. The early versions were far more > interesting and experimental than the later ones. Unfortunately most of the > existing documentation is on Smalltalk 80 which was an attempt to take the > language main stream. I do seem to recall that the earlier implementations > had icons and the full desktop metaphor. They may have been dropped as > being to radical for the time. > This is entirely incorrect. Earlier versions of Smalltalk investigated a lot of different ideas, but none of them used a desktop metaphor with (or without) icons. - Josh > >