23 Oct
2018
23 Oct
'18
3:30 a.m.
On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 03:40, Curious Marc via cctalk
<cctalk at 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.
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