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		eyelidlessness on Nov 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Growl in Retirement Wait wat? I’m not disputing this but I came up on MacOS (it wasn’t even named that at the time, I believe I got started on System 6) and I never saw notifications like that.

webwielder2 on Nov 29, 2020 [–]

Around Mac OS 9, they changed some types of errors from modal dialogs to floating palettes in the corner of the screen.

ChrisGrowl on Nov 29, 2020 | [–]

I’ve never seen these before. Sounds interesting but not the inspiration for Growl by any means. :)

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