General question about Linux

[Gregory Nowak]

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