A hierarchically structured file system goes back to MULTICS in 1964 and
followed soon by UNIX. A graphical display of hierarchical folders was
patented by Xerox in 1991. It must have taken a long time to get the
patent approved since many systems had such a hierarchical graphical
display well before the patent date.
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Chuck Norcutt
On 6/12/2013 4:40 PM, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Spotlight - on the header bar - finds anything.
> And didn't the Mac bring us the desktop with hierarchical folders?
> Now stop all this before you go blind.
>
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> www.soultheft.com
> Author/Publisher: The SLR Compendium - http://www.blurb.com/books/3732813
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>
>
> On 13/06/2013, at 2:47 AM, Bill Pearce wrote:
>
>> Ah, yes, the mac attitude. I know what's best for you and I will do that and
>> only that. If you can't find where I put a file, well, you should be more
>> "normal."
>
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