Dock (computing)
A dock is a user interface feature of a number of operating systems that typically provides a user with a way of launching and switching between applications. An early implementation of a dock was in Acorn Computers's Arthur operating system in 1987, and its successor, RISC OS, included the icon bar; NEXTSTEP and Apple Inc.'s Newton OS have also included a dock, but Mac OS X's dock has been the most commercially successful. There are various third party applications that add dock features to operating systems like Microsoft Windows and Linux.The iPhone OS also shares a similar dock to Mac OS X. The patent on Apple's implementation was applied for in 1999 and granted in October 2008. Jordan Orava Likes to do it also. [1]
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