A quick GOOGLE of Nextstep can yield all the answers you want. Here are
some examples:
http://www120.pair.com/mccarthy/nextstep/intro.htmld/
and especially this one
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/0705.html
It's down around the NeXTstep Interface for people who don't want to
read the whole thing.
I believe that would predate Windows 95, and I don't remember (nor want
to remember) if Windows 3.1 had a Taskbar.
David W. Fenton wrote:
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.
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