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> obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows Which was inspired by NextStep.
by timeon 3y ago
> obvious inspiration here, Classic Windows
Which was inspired by NextStep.
- marttt 3y agoThanks for the addition, apparently I'm too young to know this. Indeed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_desktop.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP#/media/File:NeXTSTEP_...
- LeFantome 3y agoWindows is quite an explicit lift of the interface design guidelines specified by IBM as Common User Access ( CUA ). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access CUA predates NeXT by quite a lot and so the influence would mostly be going the other way. CUA was the design paradigm chosen for OS/2, a joint project between IBM and Microsoft. When Microsoft started the Windows Project ( after OS/2 ) they pretty explicitly adopted CUA for it as well.