Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!hafro!krafla!thsa
From: thsa@rhi.hi.is (Thorvaldur S Arnarson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: replacing the desktop metaphor
Keywords: desktop metaphor, graphical interfaces, computing environments
Message-ID: <688@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 21 Dec 88 14:51:43 GMT
References: <4361@pitt.UUCP>
Organization: University of Iceland
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In article <4361@pitt.UUCP> bonar@pitt.UUCP (Dr. Jeffrey Bonar) writes:
>I have an invitation for net readers - create a metaphor for computing 
>systems that goes beyond the desktop cliche.  Four years ago, Apple 
>had something with the Macintosh desktop: a new way to think about 
>computing.  Now, everyone is copying the desktop: Microsoft, IBM, 

Why is it Apple allways given credit for the desktop idea,
they copied it from XEROX's Smalltalk project!
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- Greetings
  Thorvaldur S. Arnarson