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I. Who Really Invented the Dock?



Risc OS 3.11
Acorn Computers pioneered the dock. [Image Source: LunDuke]


Steve Jobs




MacOS X Beta
[Image Source: Wikimedia Commons]

Eventually that dock would evolve visually to its current form.

OS X Mountain Lion
OS X Mountain Lion [Image Source: Apple]


Gnome Desktop dock

II. Other Considerations : Did Samsung Infringe?

So is Samsung...

Samsung S Launcher
Samsung S Launcher [TechMynd]



Gizmodo writes:




Also the patent itself contains a central claim:





Sources: Gizmodo, LunDuke

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RE: Amiga also had...
By Belard on 8/28/2012 8:43:24 PM , Rating: 2
AMIDOCK was never part of classic AmigaOS (1.x~3.1) After Commodore died and other OS updates came out, it was added.

RE: Amiga also had...
By ShaolinSoccer on 8/28/2012 10:46:45 PM , Rating: 3
Who cares? The Amiga blew away Apple IIGS (the best at that time) and any IBM. Am I the only person who knows this?! I'll never truly understand how Commodore didn't dominate...

RE: Amiga also had...
By muhahaaha on 8/28/2012 11:54:35 PM , Rating: 4
You bet. Amiga had full color graphics and preemptive multitasking when the Mac was just black and white and slow POS.

They had a tech called HAM (Hold and Modify) that gave them 4096 colors when Apple barely was out of black and white. The Apple2GS came out with better color abilities a short time later, but it was prohibitively expensive and still couldn't compete.

Commodore bought the Amiga from another company called "Amiga Corporation" and essentially ruined it, which is too bad. It was well ahead of its time. It took a decade or more for MS and Apple to catch up.

It was the custom chips in the Amiga that really made a difference, and provided graphics and animation that was unheard of at the time.

Michael Jackson, Andy Warhol, and others used Amiga's to design their stuff. There were several movies made with the "Video Toaster" tech that hooked into the Amiga.

This month is a bad day for technology, but a time to remember some better days. I had an Amiga, and I was doing things most people are just starting to be able to do today.

