James Thomson - Mac OS X Dock History (2025)
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Original text by James Thomson.
DragThing, one of many Dock-like tools for classic Mac OS.
PCalc for classic and modern Mac OS/iOS. Some PCalc history.
The One True Place for the Dock may be at the bottom of the screen, but ever since the advent of widescreen everything, it always made more sense–at least to me–to put it on the right. This frees up what precious little vertical screen real estate there is on a 16:9 display. Sorry, James!
Jon Rubinstein on the iMac’s early days as an “Internet Appliance”, a.k.a. a diskless web terminal.