> It also turns out that Windows 3.1 (maybe even Windows 3.0 if memory serves) had a bitmap-style background pattern feature that included a pattern composition

> It also turns out that Windows 3.1 (maybe even Windows 3.0 if memory serves) had a bitmap-style background pattern feature that included a pattern composition tool. The very first version of MacOS had a pattern editor in 1984. Mac System 3.0 (1986) improved this with a number of pre-made patterns. One of the patterns is pixel for pixel identical to "wide-weave".