The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environments (2000)

Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by bad_username on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:07PM (#26413488)

> some of the user interface features pioneered by Mac OS such the desktop

That is not true. The desktop metaphor, for example, was first introduced at Xerox PARC in 1970, and used commercially in the Xerox Star workstation in 1981.

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Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by eschaton on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:55PM (#26414020)

Not really, the basis for the desktop metaphor came from research done at IBM, and it was very extensively revised at Apple for Lisa. (See “Inventing the Lisa User Interface” from ACM Interactions in 1995.)

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Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by JohnBooty on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:17PM (#26414227)

Seems a deliberate and acceptable word choice. pioneer != inventor

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Re:The Challenges of Integrating the Unix and Mac OS Environ... by mattl on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @12:24PM (#26413663)

That's not what pioneered means.

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