Comparison
Although Spaces was a new feature for Mac OS 10.5, virtual desktops existed for quite some time on other platforms, such as Linux, Solaris, AIX and BeOS. Virtual desktops also existed for Windows and for the Mac OS via 3rd party software and It has been a standard feature on GNU/Linux desktops for a number of years. The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was the Amiga 1000, released in 1985.
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“Clay answered the petition by declaring that while he looked on the institution of slavery as an evil, it was ‘nothing in comparison with the far greater evil which would inevitably flow from a sudden and indiscriminate emancipation.’”
—State of Indiana, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)
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