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  3. September 2004

RE: Who invented the GUI, was RE: Moving to Mac

Did any of you ever work with the Amiga ? THAT was an incredibly bleeding
edge piece of equipment. I will never forget the first time I saw one. I was
still messing around on a character based PC that was "state of the art" and
a friend got an Amiga and the demo showed a beet being poured into a tall
glass and it was unbelievably real looking !

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James H H Lampert
Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2004 4:27 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Who invented the GUI, was RE: Moving to Mac

> XEROX

Well, yes, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center developed the first GUI,
ancestor of the Lisa (anybody remember that Mac-forerunner?), Macintosh,
WinDoze, the Amiga, XWindows, GEM, GEOS, and other GUIs even more obscure.

Didn't they also invent SmallTalk?

But today's Macintosh L&F is hardly even recognizable as the same
look-and-feel as what you got on a Mac128.

--
JHHL

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