Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[Hamilcar Barca]

In article <aab17256.0405071903.421eb0e7@posting.google.com> (Fri, 07 May
2004 20:03:16 -0700), Daniel R. Tobias wrote:

> 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?

Yes.  Smalltalk-72 had a "desktop" but I'm nearly 100% certain it didn't
have the concepts of "user" or "switching" or whatever Microsoft's claims
involve.