Jo, det var det jag syftade på. Gitta Salomon, Richard Mander och Yin Yin Wong presenterade konceptet under CHI konferensen, maj -92. Det jag menade var att det är troligare att Think Secret trollet tog fel på Exposé och Piles snarare än att Apple plockade bort Piles från en senare OS X distro.
Jakob Nielsen berättar i sina anteckningar från CHI-92 konferensen:
Another example of a concept bridging advanced and current interface techniques was a paper on the pile metaphor presented by Richard Mander, Gitta Salomon, and Yin Yin Wong. The basic idea was to replace the orderly file folders in current graphical user interfaces with something more closely reflecting the way many people actually deal with paper in their office.
Given the way my desk looks right now, I certainly sympathize with the idea of allowing users to collect documents in piles rather than file folders. In their prototype interface, Mander and colleagues represented documents by miniatures of their first page rather than by standardized icons, and users could gather many such miniatures in a pile.
Users could access the contents of a pile by several methods, including edge browsing (looking at the edges of each miniature document when they were piled up), temporarily spreading out the pile on the screen to make each miniature fully visible, and finally selecting a single miniature for a closer look. These browsing mechanisms were designed after a study of how people use piles of documents in their physical offices, so the paper was also an example of the use of appropriate field studies of previous technology
