Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[Daeron]

Barry Margolin wrote:

> > Aren't all the mainframe timesharing systems, some of which were
> > around 30 or 40 years ago, which maintain separate user sessions each
> > with their own environment, prior art for this?  As I recall, the APL
> > system actually called saved environments "workspaces".

> 30 years ago, computers didn't even have "desktops", so I don't see how 
> they could be considered prior art.

The 'desktop' being a metaphor for processes running in a particular 
context. The said processes also being restricted as to what they could 
access. Nowadays three, at least, of those process controll the mouse, 
keyboard and screen. Nothing new here.