Jon Glass (jonglass_at_mac.com) wrote:
> It predated the Mac by at least a couple of years. I'm guessing
> it was the fruit of Xerox's famed PARC lab?? I don't recall if it had
> overlapping windows.
As far as I know, Apple were the first to support drawing to windows that
were partially overlapped by other windows. As the story goes, when an
Apple delegation visited Xerox PARC, they left with the impression that
Xerox' computers (the Star or whatever) already could do this, so they
reverse-engineered this feature, invented "regions" etc., only to find
out later that they had either been mistaken or that Xerox had fudged it.
- Michael
Michael J. Hussmann
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