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From: aii@s.cc.purdue.edu (Mike Mackenzie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: environment's inventors
Message-ID: <877@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: Fri, 4-Sep-87 15:15:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: s.877
Posted: Fri Sep  4 15:15:42 1987
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References: <1987Aug28.123711.18714@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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Keywords: mouse window xerox

In article <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu>, kdmoen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Doug Moen) writes:
> Well, Smalltalk goes back to 1972, which is 15 years ago.
> The mouse was invented at Stanford in the late 60's by Doug Englebart.
> I once saw a claim that windows were invented long before Smalltalk as
> well, but I can't find the reference or substantiate it.

The first reference I have seen to windows is in Arthur C. Clark's "2001, a 
Space Odessey"  He has one of the crew members touching a "postage stamped
sized picture" on a flat screen.  This picture then grows to fill the whole
screen.
Arthur C. Clark is credited for being the first to describe geosynchronous
communication satellites,  looks like he also invented touch screens, & 
windowing.  ( Although he may have gotten these from someone else )

				Michael MacKenzie
				mm@arthur.cs.purdue.edu