Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a dock
way back in 1992. Maybe earlier.
http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/oshistory/7.html
There are a lot of things to like about the Dock, and Task bar. I'd like
to see some of the things Apple places in the upper right, like Airport
status, etc, be like Window's Task bar where they move where you place
the task bar. I find that sometimes my upper right corner of OS X is
cluttered with all the little accessories that load........
David W. Fenton wrote:
Er, the Taskbar came first. The feature Dennis describes was present
in the first implementation of it, in Windows 95.
The Dock copies a good idea that Microsoft implemented first (which,
arguably, was copied by Microsoft from various utilities), and Apple
copied in OS X. There are good and bad things about the Taskbar and
according to those in the know, the Dock, as well. Some critics (Tog
anyone?) criticized the intial implementations of the Dock for
copying not just the good things in the Taskbar, but also many of the
bad features of it.
I don't understand how a reasonable discussion has now gotten into
this kind of tit-for-tat back and forth on trivialities.
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