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Tiling WMs

Tiling WMs

Posted Jan 25, 2005 19:44 UTC (Tue) by AJWM (guest, #15888)
In reply to: Tiling WMs by cgray4
Parent article: Innovations in window management (NewsForge)

I could be wrong, but I seem to recall that overlapping, vs tiled, were one of the (more than most people give credit for) innovations that Apple added over and above the original Xerox PARC work.

(Mind, Apple had quite a few of the original PARC developers working for them by that point.)

(Or maybe overlapping was just too hard for Microsoft in round one. Do you really want to try dealing with exposure events on DOS?)


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