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Wow, I was surprised to see that Apple has patents on those, especially the one on pull-down menus. Wasn't pull-down menus there in some old Xerox computer?
by auvi 13y ago
Wow, I was surprised to see that Apple has patents on those, especially the one on pull-down menus. Wasn't pull-down menus there in some old Xerox computer?
- sbuk 13y agoPull-downs are entirely Apple's: http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_Progress.txt http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=On_Xerox,_Apple_and_P... and http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Busy_Being_Born.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Busy_Being_Born.t...
- pera 13y agoThat's interesting, IIRC pull-downs were used in GEM and Amiga Workbench too...
- sbuk 13y agoThey both did, but came after Apples implement implementation in Lisa.
- Someone 13y agoThe Apple Lisa was released in January 1983, GEM was first demoed in November 1984 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_Environment_Manager, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMDEX http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMDEX), and Amiga Workbench was released in july 1985 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workbench_(AmigaOS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workbench_(AmigaOS), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000) I don't think anybody ever claimed parallel inventions here.