In fact, I believe that all the guis we have today includeing xwindows originated from Xerox. Greg On Sat, Jul 20, 2002 at 09:22:32PM -0500, Adam Myrow wrote: > Actually, the term "folder" first appeared on the Macintosh and later > showed up on the Apple IIGS which tried unsuccessfully to bridge the gap > between the Apple II line and the Macintosh line. The term "desktop" also > has its origins before Windows, though I'm not sure how far back it goes. > I first heard it with Appleworks on the Apple IIe. Appleworks was a > combined word processor, database, and spreadsheet and may have been one > of the first. In fact, most terms that Windows throws around came from > the Mac, and of course, the GUI came from Xerox originally. Windows has > the Recycle Bin, Apple had the Trash icon. Windows associates extensions > with programs and calls them file types, and Apple actually set special > flags in the filesystem to indicate file types, so extensions didn't > matter. The list goes on and on. Of course, this has nothing to do with > Linux nor Speakup, so this is all I will say on this matter. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
