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On Tue, 24 Jan 2012, Philip Hudson wrote:
On 24 Jan, 2012, at 1:46 pm, Simon Waters wrote:Gordon Henderson wrote:So.. let me get this right... 20 years ago we had a windowing environment, then MS invented this "desktop metaphor" ... Now we're going back to the pure windowing thing...No the Desktop metaphor wasn't a Microsoft thing and is at least 25 years old, and Xerox PARC were doing something similar 41 years ago.For the avoidance of confusion: Microsoft never invented anything. Nothing.
OK! OK! Perhaps I should have said "popularised it" then. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq