Bill Gates on Vista and Apple's 'Lying' Ads (Mac OS X vs Vista)

LuKreme kremels at kreme.com
Fri Feb 2 21:51:51 PST 2007


On 2-Feb-2007, at 15:46, Tom M.Blenko wrote:
>> Who *did* invent the File/Edit/etc. menu convention?  Obviously it  
>> was burned into the Mac long before Windows existed.  But did the  
>> convention exist in Microsoft text-based programs before the Mac?   
>> Did it exist at PARC?
>
> Yes, more or less. It wasn't standardized (or sort-of standardized)  
> across applications.

Are you sure about this?  I don't recall teh PARC interface even  
HAVING a menu bar.


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