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Xerox had the first "fixed drop-down menu". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_gra

by zik 14y ago

Xerox had the first "fixed drop-down menu". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i... Apple's Jef Raskin did come up with drag-and-drop though so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.

masklinn 14y ago
> so that's pretty much the one original thing they did. The Star didn't have overlapping windows either I believe (Atkinson believed it did, so he implemented it). I think the clipboard was invented for Lisa as well.
- rbanffy 14y ago
  There is more detail here: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt&topic=Software%20Design&sortOrder=Sort%20by%20Date http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...