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by michaelcampbell 5570 days ago
Create it? Didn't Xerox PARC "create it"?
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Archit 5570 days ago
PARC just created the user interface which later greatly influenced future developments not only at Apple, but at Microsoft and Sun Microsystems too.

More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

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rbanffy 5570 days ago
Star is very different from Macs (and Lisas). It has things-on-a-desktop, overlapping windows and black-on-white text, but it feels completely different.
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