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by bad_username 1921 days ago
> some of the user interface features pioneered by Mac OS such the desktop

That is not true. The desktop metaphor, for example, was first introduced at Xerox PARC in 1970, and used commercially in the Xerox Star workstation in 1981.
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eschaton 1921 days ago
Not really, the basis for the desktop metaphor came from research done at IBM, and it was very extensively revised at Apple for Lisa. (See “Inventing the Lisa User Interface” from ACM Interactions in 1995.)
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JohnBooty 1921 days ago
Seems a deliberate and acceptable word choice. pioneer != inventor
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mattl 1921 days ago
That's not what pioneered means.
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