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I once read an anecdote saying that that Jobs remembered this part wrong: he told Apple's engineers about the stacking, overlapping windows he thought he had se

I once read an anecdote saying that that Jobs remembered this part wrong: he told Apple's engineers about the stacking, overlapping windows he thought he had seen; armed with this piece of misinformation, they went ahead and "duplicated" that feature.

shawndumas 14y ago
Not quite the same thing but here is a corollary... "Smalltalk had a three-button mouse and pop-up menus, in contrast to the Mac's menu bar and one-button mouse. Smalltalk didn't even have self-repairing windows - you had to click in them to get them to repaint, and programs couldn't draw into partially obscured windows. Bill Atkinson did not know this, so he invented regions as the basis of QuickDraw and the Window Manager so that he could quickly draw in covered windows and repaint portions of windows brought to the front. One Macintosh feature identical to a Smalltalk feature is selection-based modeless text editing with cut and paste, which was created by Larry Tesler for his Gypsy editor at PARC." --http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...