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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Retrograde   
   Re: Mac OSX Dock turns 25   
   08 Jan 25 04:41:38   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On 08 Jan 2025 04:17:05 GMT, Retrograde wrote:   
      
   > James Thomson, developer of, originally, DragThing and now PCalc, also   
   > happens to be the developer of the very first publicly shown version of   
   > the Mac OS dock. Now that it was shown to the world by Steve Jobs   
   > exactly 25 years ago, he reminisces about what it was like to create   
   > such an iconic piece of software history.   
      
   Yet another hangover from the time when it was thought to be a good idea   
   to commingle the GUI inextricably with the OS kernel.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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