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Many programs that emulate the OS X dock on Windows, such as ObjectDock and RocketDock, have sprung up due to the popularity of OS X. Earlier versions of Mac OS (before 10.0) did not have a dock, but add-ons such as DragThing added a dock for users of earlier versions.
Microsoft implemented a simplified dock feature in Windows 98 with the QuickLaunch toolbar and this feature remained until Windows Vista. In Windows 7 the new Superbar seems to have been heavily influenced by the Mac OS X Dock.
Various docks are also used in Linux and BSD. Some examples are Window Maker (which emulates the look and feel of the NeXTstep GUI), Docky, and Avant Window Navigator, KXDocker (amongst others) for KDE and various other gdesklet/adesklets docks, AfterStep's Wharf (a derivation from the NeXTstep UI), iTask NG (a module used with some Enlightenment-based Linux distributions such as gOS) and Blackbox's Slit.
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