On 8 Mar 2006 at 17:15, Stephen Peters wrote: > Eric Dannewitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Er, no. I believe NeXTStep OS, which Mac OS X is based upon, had a > > dock way back in 1992. Maybe earlier. > > Earlier. The dock was part of the first release of NeXTSTEP in 1989. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP
I think there's confusion here about what a lot of things. The Windows Taskbar has several functions, including program launcher (via menus and via the QuickLaunch bar), but also displays system data (in the system tray), but, most importantly, the running applications. My understanding of the OS X Dock was that it is both a program launcher, but primarily a representation of running programs, with icons for all the windows/documents/applications (like the Windows Taskbar). >From what I can tell of the description of the NextStep Dock, it was only a program launcher, no? That would mean that the primary functionality of the Taskbar (to provide a graphical representation of running tasks, hence the NAME) was absent in the pre-OS X incarnations of the Dock. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
