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The Xerox Star appears to have been truly amazing, and must've been way ahead of its time. Apple copied a whole lot from them, then popularized the GUI-system,
by klingonopera 7y ago
The Xerox Star appears to have been truly amazing, and must've been way ahead of its time. Apple copied a whole lot from them, then popularized the GUI-system, which in turn was then copied by Microsoft in Windows, and the rest is history.
I first heard of the XS on a documentary, but I can't remeber which, and I'm currently bandwidth restricted, so I can't go hunting on YouTube. But IIRC, it was a documentary on either Apple, Steve Jobs, early Microsoft/Windows or GUIs, and seemed professionally made.