Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft | Club386
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Building on Xerox PARC's ground-breaking work on SmallTalk, this computer's OS had a full working GUI with icons, scrollbars, and menus in 1981.
  • MurrayL@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    ‘Brought us’ is generous. The 8010 was prohibitively expensive, as the article says - over $16,500 in 1981.

    Xerox might have invented the GUI, but it wasn’t for you and me. It was Apple and Microsoft who polished their ideas and made them accessible to the masses.