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Amiga, GEOS, GEM. If you want to talk about the early GUIs you can start with Xerox I think, but Apple was not the only one back then. https://en.wikipedia.or
by ecpottinger 5y ago
Amiga, GEOS, GEM. If you want to talk about the early GUIs you can start with Xerox I think, but Apple was not the only one back then.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_...
- cmrdporcupine 5y agoIndeed, the genesis of GEM was with Lee Jay Lorenzen who left Xerox to come to DR after he tried to pitch a light version of the Star's GUI that would run on PC-class hardware. So although there was obviously a lot copied from the Mac there was also a lot that came from his experience at Xerox. Here's his presentation of his prototype, in 1982, quite a while before the Mac or Lisa were released: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBGRZftS30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMBGRZftS30