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[lostcarpark]

This from Apple's email newsletter:

Want a fast way to switch from one open application to another?
Mac OS X version 10.3 "Panther" makes it as easy as typing Command-Tab.

Now, I can't remember if the Alt-Tab shortcut was in Windows 1.0 in 1986, but it was certainly in Windows 2.0 in 1988 and every version since, so it's only taken Apple fifteen years to figure out that this is a good thing. But then it took them to System 7 to catch on to running multiple applications, and OSX to figure out preemptive multitasking.

Yes, Apple have come up with some great ideas, but let's not forget that they steal ideas too.

Comments

[cdr.livejournal.com]

So when I apple-tab between applications in 10.2, am I just imagining that I'm doing it? :)

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. Any idea when it was introduced as a shortcut? And the option key is different from the Apple key, isn't it?

[cdr.livejournal.com]

Christ knows. I get confused which one is which. I have ctrl, alt and apple, so I suppose 'apple' is 'command'.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Last I looked at a Mac keyboard, there was a key to the left of the spacebar with a sqiggely symbol called "option" and a key to the right of the spacebar with the apple symbol on it. But it was a while ago, so not very fresh in my memory.