Comment on Windows 1.01 in Your BrowserparentComments−Stratoscope11yTry launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around.It's a tiled window manager!−kristopolous11yoverlapping windows was actually a challenging problem within the constraints of the old hardware.−bonzini11yActually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.−technofiend11yThere's a million links on that, this is one of the first with names and dates: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...
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Try launching a few programs (double-click the floppy disk after each one to open the MS-DOS Executive again) and then move them around.
It's a tiled window manager!
overlapping windows was actually a challenging problem within the constraints of the old hardware.
Actually it was due to legal worries that Windows 1 only supported tiling. In Windows 2 they ignored the worries and Apple promptly sued.
There's a million links on that, this is one of the first with names and dates: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=A_Rich_Neighbor_N...