On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 03:40, Curious Marc via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > As they used to say, Windows95 = Mac 1984. Which is pushing it a bit but has > some truth in it... Maybe Mac 1990. Curiously, the Xerox Alto has quite > advanced GUI and object oriented programming (including the smalltalk > windowing environment), but no desktop metaphor or icons that I have seen. I > believe desktop metaphors appear later in the Alto commercial successor, the > Xerox Star, and in the Apple Lisa, which bears strong Xerox influences. > Xerox’s desktop metaphor pushes the object concept a bit far, while the Lisa > got what would become the modern ubiquitous version of the concept almost > dead on. Did I get this approximately right?
I'd say you're pretty much bang-on. > Are there any other GUI desktop metaphors that predates this? Not that I'm aware of. -- Liam Proven - Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk - Google Mail/Hangouts/Plus: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven - Skype/LinkedIn: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 - ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053
