Re: Sharing the Family PC is Patent-Pending

[Barry Margolin]

In article <aab17256.0405071903.421eb0e7@posting.google.com>,
 dan@tobias.name (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?

The Alto came out in 1980.  That was one of their first systems with a 
desktop metaphor.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA