Stacking Window Manager - History

History

  • 1970s: The Xerox Alto which contained the first working commercial GUI used a stacking window manager.
  • Early 1980s: The Xerox Star, successor to the alto, used tiling for most main application windows, and used overlapping only for dialogue windows removing the need for full stacking.
  • Mac OS was one of the earliest commercially successful examples of an GUI which used stacking windows.
  • GEM 1.1 predated Microsoft Windows and used stacking, allowing all windows to overlap. As a result of a lawsuit by Apple, GEM was forced to remove the stacking capabilities.
  • Amiga OS contains an early example of a highly advanced stacking window manager.

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