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Try launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around. It's a tiled window ma
by Stratoscope 12y ago
Try launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around.
It's a tiled window manager!
- kristopolous 12y agooverlapping windows was actually a challenging problem within the constraints of the old hardware.
- bonzini 12y agoActually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.
- technofiend 12y agoThere's a million links on that, this is one of the first with names and dates: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_Named_Xerox.txt http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...