On: The Anti-Mac Interface (1996)

[braythwayt]

  > as mobile OSes have gotten more multitasking-friendly they've moved towards
  > the "card" metaphor, in which each app runs in a card and there's some
  > method for shuffling between them. And a card is really just a window
  > that's maximized 100% of the time. (Which is how most general users use
  > windows on the desktop, so they're not losing much.)

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

“Switcher,” written by Andy Hertzfeld, October 1984-1985.

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Switcher.txt

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http://macgui.com/usenet/?group=8&id=1113