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.
Read more about this topic: Stacking Window Manager
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“What you don’t understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He should, and yet to believe that man does not live in a state of nature but in history, and that history as we know it now began with Christ, it was founded by Him on the Gospels.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)
“... all big changes in human history have been arrived at slowly and through many compromises.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records between the material and the moral nature.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)