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Thanks. Didn't know this UX came from Smalltalk, I always assumed it was kinda-exclusive to macOS' Finder/iTunes and heavily patented by Apple.


The live demo of Smalltalk-78 that was posted here a while ago shows it off quite nicely.

https://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html


I fumbled and clicked around for a while, but I still don't have the slightest idea of what I'm looking at and how to use it. Except for the obvious "an ancient operating system emulated in Javascript."


Click-and-hold the right mouse button on the desktop, and select 'Open a Browser' from the lovely ornate dropdown menu. You'll see a miller column browser at the top of the window.


I came across it the other day in a vid o form 1990 about Lotus Inprov rubbing on NextSTEP. The Wikipedia page mentions it was used by Next, but I also find it interesting that I saw it there just a few days ago :)




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