I wrote the article. I was a Mac user then too, from System 6. You may forget but there was a graphical desktop for DOS PCs before MS Windows. It was called G

I wrote the article. I was a Mac user then too, from System 6. You may forget but there was a graphical desktop for DOS PCs before MS Windows. It was called GEM, by Digital Research. Apple sued Digital Research and forced DR to cripple its GEM desktop on the PC, by obliging it to remove features deemed derivative of classic MacOS: desktop drive icons, drop-down menus, etc. So, for instance, DR moved drive icons into a window. This is why Win95 has "My Computer" and "Network Neighbourhood" and so on instead: because it wasn't allowed to put drive icons on the desktop, but folders with drive icons in was OK because it didn't infringe.