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| Before 1982, one can only do one thing at a time on any computer. This might be true from a GUI perspective, but people have been able to do multiple things
by humbledrone 16y ago
| Before 1982, one can only do one thing at a time on any computer.
This might be true from a GUI perspective, but people have been able to do multiple things on computers since the late 1950's.
In fact, the alleged inventor of time sharing systems, John McCarthy, was already reminiscing about the history of time sharing just a year after the Blit Terminal was invented:
http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/timesharing.html http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/history/timesharing/times...
- greenyoda 16y agoIt's not even true from a GUI perspective. The Alto workstation, developed at Xerox PARC in 1973, was the first computer to use a GUI with a desktop metaphor and a mouse: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto Xerox's GUI later influenced Apple's Lisa machine (development started in 1978), which was a precursor to the Macintosh.