Xerox PARC GUI History
This cluster centers on debates about Xerox PARC's pioneering graphical user interfaces like the Alto and Star, and how Steve Jobs and Apple borrowed or stole these ideas for the Macintosh and Lisa.
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Remember Xerox PARC and the GUI.
True. Just ask Xerox.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Alto
I think you're thinking of the Xerox "Star", not the "Alto":http://toastytech.com/guis/star.html
its the old PARC UI/UX concept..ever see a Lisa Apple computer JC? I know you have seen at least one right? It borrowed some concepts from PARC and that was one of them..
I thought Jobs borrowed the GUI from Xerox.
Didn't he steal the GUI from Xerox?
I think MPW (the original Mac IDE from Apple) in 1985 can claim prior art on the notebook UI
And before Macwrite, or Macintosh computers existed, there was Xerox PARC and their GUI-based WYSIWYG editor called "Bravo", which Steve Jobs no doubt would have seen when he visited PARC.
Note the part where the UI drastically changed after visiting Xerox PARC, and then ask yourself who really pioneered it.
"Xerox-inspired GUIs altogether" - icons and symbols as means of communication have longer history than Xerox