folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta) (12/31/89)
In the long-running discussion about who gets credit for what, someone
mentioned that icons first (or at least very early) appeared at PARC,
then showed up in the Mac Finder. I would like to know more details
about this. As I see it, there are three things that could be lumped under
the term "icons":
1. Iconic representation of files (ala Mac)
2. Iconic representation of closed windows (running processes) (ala Sun)
3. Automatic selection of a program to process a file when the file
is selected (ala Mac and even Windows)
Does anyone out there have more info on the earliest appearance of each
of these concepts?
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Wayne Folta (folta@cs.umd.edu 128.8.128.8)