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Article #19016Re: environment's inventors
From: howard
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1987 01:48
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1987 01:48
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In article <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu> kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes:
>Well, Smalltalk goes back to 1972, which is 15 years ago.
>The mouse was invented at Stanford in the late 60's by Doug Englebart.
>I once saw a claim that windows were invented long before Smalltalk as
>well, but I can't find the reference or substantiate it.
Windows antedate Smalltalk, but *overlapping* windows were first implemented
in Smalltalk, by Diana Merry. Very few people today would settle for
non-overlapping windows only.
--
Howard A. Landman
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!oliveb!intelca!mipos3!cpocd2!howard From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: environment's inventors Message-ID: <841@cpocd2.UUCP> Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 21:48:47 EDT Article-I.D.: cpocd2.841 Posted: Fri Sep 11 21:48:47 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 06:53:44 EDT References: <1987Aug28.123711.18714@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu> Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ Lines: 15 Keywords: mouse window xerox