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> But I wasn't an early user of MacOS, I don't know when this Column layout was first introduced.

1989. See the screenshot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTSTEP

Instead of the drawer on the side, NeXTSTEP had the Shelf on top: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf_(computing)

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Thanks TIL. Tangentially related, I'm a huge fan of the aesthetics of the NeXTcube (even if by all accounts it was a bit of a nightmare to build from a engineering perspective).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXTcube





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