Re: Early History of Mac OS X Dock

On 2025-01-08 16:44:05 +0000, D Finnigan said:

 article by James Thomson
January 4, 2025
https://tla.systems/blog/2025/01/04/i-live-my-life-a-quarter-century-at-a-time/
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 So, we are coming up on a little anniversary for me this weekend. On the 5th
of January 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the new Aqua user interface of Mac OS X
to the world at Macworld Expo.
 Towards the end of the presentation, he showed off the Dock. You all know
the Dock, it's been at the bottom of your Mac screen for what feels like
forever (if you keep it in the correct location, anyway).

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The MacOS X Dock idea is a carry over from the NeXTSTEP OS it is based on. Apple could of course have simply not bothered with it, but decided to keep it. The code for it may or may not have been completely re-written for MacOS X though.