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From: crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Multifinder observations
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Date: 11 Dec 87 02:35:00 GMT
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> In article <1467@aecom.YU.EDU>, naftoli@aecom.YU.EDU (Robert N. Berlinger) writes:
> > In article <2693@sphinx.uchicago.edu>, cute@sphinx.uchicago.edu (John Cavallino) writes:
> > > 
> > > How about a command (or key-combo or check-box or checked menu item,...)
> > > to cause ALL of an application's windows (its entire "layer") to zoom into
> > > an icon on the desktop (maybe the application's own icon???) whenever that
> > > application is switched out.  To switch it back in, you'd double-click on that
> > > icon, whereupon they would all zoom back into being and become the frontmost
> > > layer.  Sound plausible?
> > 
> > Comment: You're describing Microsoft Windows' iconing feature.
> 
> Further comment:  Also Apple's Lisa Office System (7/7) and one of the Xerox
> systems that people I knew at JPL were using (I think it was the Star).
> The metaphor is not new, nor was it created at either MicroSoft or Apple.  I
> don't know if it was created at PARC or not.

I don't know where this came from, but it also exists on sun workstations 
and undoubtedly numerous other graphic-oriented workstations...

-- Dan Crimmins
   crimmins@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu