Hi Allen, Phil, and John, As Phil mentioned, the Xerox Star was the first commercial product using many of the desktop concepts. But the Xerox Alto research system explored some of these (more the WYSIWYG than the desktop) years before. And many of these ideas were originally shown by Doug Englebart from SRI at the "Mother of All Demos" in December 1968:
http://www.sri.com/engelbart-event.html Best regards, Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com (former Alto and Star user) -----Original Message----- From: Allen Fisher <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Desktop (Was: [Finale] Splash screen) To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"; format=flowed Didn't OS/2 have one too? or did Star predate that? On Feb 11, 2009, at 8:04 AM, Phil Daley wrote: > At 2/10/2009 09:38 PM, John Howell wrote: > > >If I remember correctly, the "desktop" concept or analogy (which is > >clearly what David meant) was original with Apple, and was stolen by > >Microsoft, which unaccountably won the subsequent lawsuit. So by the > >time Windoze came along that was all ancient history. > > Nope, they both stole it from Xerox Star. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
