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>> Acorn's OS had a task bar almost a decade before Windows came along with
>> it.
>
> Heh, why does that not surprise me?
Here's a screenshot I found from 1987!
http://www.mjpye.org.uk/images/screens/arthur2.gif
And 1989:
http://www.mjpye.org.uk/images/screens/riscos2.gif
And 1991:
http://toastytech.com/guis/riscosnewlook.gif
And 1994, Windows still didn't have a task bar:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/Windows_3.11_workspace.png
I still remember my IT teacher at school telling me in 1995 that he heard
the new Windows OS was going to have a "task bar", and how they had copied
the Acorn design. In fairness I doubt that whoever decided on the task bar
had even seen an Acorn machine before. Although there is a classic anecdote
going around the Acorn world that apparently Bill Gates was once watching a
demo from Acorn of how to network machines together, and he asked "what's a
network?".
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