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Article #617851Re: Why Ctrl-v for Paste?!
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:45
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2017 12:45
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On 12/15/2017 11:28 PM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: > On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 15:19:11 -0500 > J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Dec 2017 14:15:42 -0600, Charles Richmond >> <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote: > >>> The Mac GUI made some changes to the GUI's for the Bravo and Alto. >>> >>> On the Alto, you pointed the mouse to a window and clicked. A menu >>> would pop up... and you could select "move". The mouse cursor would >>> change to the "move" cursor, you dragged and dropped the window yo the >>> desired position, then the mouse cursor would chsnge back to the regular >>> cursor. You repeated this process any time you wanted to move a window. >>> >>> The Mac allowed you to directly move the window using the dragger bar at >>> the top. >>> >>> An analogous process was needed on the Alto/Bravo to resize a window on >>> the Alto. The Mac provided for direct window resize without selecting >> >from a menu. >> >> And on various Unix flavors there are other differences in detail. So >> what? > > Point and click was Xerox's innovation, drag and drop was Apple's, > I'm not too sure about the origins of focus follows pointer or multi-finger > gestures on touchpads and screens. > Doesn't Doug Englebart get credit for anything that one can do with the mouse??? Englebart held the patent on the mouse beginning in 1970... his tiled windows must have used the mouse somehow! -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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