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I was referring to Switcher, from 1985, which I believe ran on 128k Mac's. I was referring to Switcher because it set the user experience patterns and expectati
by yodon 2y ago
I was referring to Switcher, from 1985, which I believe ran on 128k Mac's. I was referring to Switcher because it set the user experience patterns and expectations for how app switching should work that led to multifinder and OSX per-app switching patterns.
The Mac OS has always been an app-first experience (leading users to tend to talk about the name of the app they are using) where Windows has always been a document-first experience (leading users to talk about the file type of the document they are opening). Apps and Documents are obviously both important, so this is a big of a ying and yang thing where it's clearly two sides of the same coin, and yet they lead to a bias to talking about, for example, keynote, which is an app, and to talking about PowerPoint decks, which are documents (again, a bias, not a totality).
- lproven 2y agoThanks for the reply. > I was referring to Switcher, from 1985 Ah, OK. You didn't _say_ that, though. > which I believe ran on 128k Mac's. I don't think so, no. The story of its development is here: https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html It mentions needing the RAM, but not what system version. MultiFinder came in with System 5: https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html https://www.folklore.org/Switcher.html ... so, before that. I would guess System 2, which was contemporaneous, but I don't know. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#Release_history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classic_Mac_OS#Release_history > I was referring to Switcher because it set the user experience patterns and expectations for how app switching should work that led to multifinder and OSX per-app switching patterns. Huh. OK. I had never considered that before.