Desktop Metaphor

Tue Oct 23 05:30:32 CDT 2018

On Tue, 23 Oct 2018 at 03:40, Curious Marc via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> 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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