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From: howard@cpocd2.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: environment's inventors
Message-ID: <841@cpocd2.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 11-Sep-87 21:48:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: cpocd2.841
Posted: Fri Sep 11 21:48:47 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 13-Sep-87 06:53:44 EDT
References: <1987Aug28.123711.18714@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu> <1681@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Reply-To: howard@cpocd2.UUCP (Howard A. Landman)
Organization: Intel Corp. ASIC Systems Organization, Chandler AZ
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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.

Windows antedate Smalltalk, but *overlapping* windows were first implemented
in Smalltalk, by Diana Merry.  Very few people today would settle for
non-overlapping windows only.

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