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The Windows 95 look and feel is almost entirely attributable to NEXTSTEP. Proportional scroll bars on the Mac go back to Lisa and were used in GS/OS before Mac
by eschaton 7y ago
The Windows 95 look and feel is almost entirely attributable to NEXTSTEP.
Proportional scroll bars on the Mac go back to Lisa and were used in GS/OS before Mac OS. Windows had nothing to do with their adoption.
- kick 7y agoThat's false, actually. The Windows 95 look can be tied to IBM doing a massive amount of market research for their previous operating systems efforts; the monotone and 3D look was found to be the least-offensive UX globally.
- wtallis 7y agoAnd the feel/function of a Windows 95 scrollbar differs from that of a NeXT scrollbar in almost every way possible.