Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft

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Happy 45th birthday, Xerox Star, the computer that brought us a full GUI well before Apple and Microsoft

www.club386.com

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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.

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