Plaintiffs IP Innovation and Technology Licensing Corp. claim to have the rights to U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412 for a User Interface with Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects issued Dec. 10, 1991 along with two other similar patents.
WTF?
X has had that as long as I've seen it.
The patent was filed in 1987 and this goes back to when I was still in grade school so I dont know to well when X had what but it does seem like it would fail the ‘obvious’ test and the prior art test..
...and Compiz-Fusion. :) My eye candy/desktop utility of choice.
papa went dapper>edgy>feisty>GUTSY!!!
Amiga:
"The first platform to implement multiple desktop display as a hardware feature was Amiga 1000 in 1985."
"The Amiga500 released in 1987 supported multiple in memory screens displayed concurrently via the use of the Copper. The Copper was a simple processor whose operations waited for a screen position, wrote to hardware registers (including display memory fetch position), conditionally skipped an instruction, or performed No OPeration [NOP]."
