Comment by cricalix
4 years ago
First image in this blog post shows the cursor as it was first(?) seen on an Alto. So, so much of our computing paradigms came from Xerox PARC.
http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-r...
4 years ago
First image in this blog post shows the cursor as it was first(?) seen on an Alto. So, so much of our computing paradigms came from Xerox PARC.
http://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-r...
Ah yeah but the "tail" on that arrow is much longer! The one I see in Linux and BSDs appears to be literally pixel-for-pixel identical to the Macintosh one, though I haven't exactly done a closeup comparison.
> Ah yeah but the "tail" on that arrow is much longer! The one I see in Linux and BSDs appears to be literally pixel-for-pixel identical to the Macintosh one, though I haven't exactly done a closeup comparison.
They are quite similar, but there's more pixel differences between current Linux/BSD pointers and the Macintosh pointer than there are between the Macintosh pointer than the Alto one (roughly 1 pixel difference).
IOW, Macintosh is closer to the Alto one than it is to the Linux/BSD ones.