Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[Rahul Dhesi]

dan@tobias.name (Daniel R. Tobias) writes:

>Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote in message 
>news:<barmar-D88617.18415607052004@comcast.ash.giganews.com>...
>> I thought "the desktop" referred to features of a graphical user 
>> interface.  Sure, it's a metaphor for things that existed 30 years ago, 
>> but the metaphor itself didn't exist then.

>Didn't Xerox PARC have something along those lines over 30 years ago?

Maybe, but implementing this on a Microsoft Windows machine was
not obvious to anybody at that time.  In fact I believe it wasn't
obvious even to Microsoft until recently. :-)
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Rahul