22 Oct
2018
22 Oct
'18
9:26 p.m.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 9:11 PM Mark Green via cctalk <cctalk at 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