Re: computer history

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: computer history
Date	2015-07-13 20:56 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
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On 2015-07-13, Rich <rich@example.invalid> wrote:
> Bill Cunningham <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote:
>>     I have read two different things concerning GUIs. The "Next Step" was 
>> the first GUI OS. Then I read it was something else that eludes me right 
>> now. Anyone know for sure?
>
>> Thanks 2 those interested.
>
> The Xerox PARC is widley credited as being very close to 'first' in
> that arena:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_interface#Xerox_PARC
>
> The MacOS GUI was a clone of the PARC after Jobs and Woz toured Xerox's
> research facility and saw the PARC.

There was no such machine as "the PARC". Xerox had at least 2 GUI based
systems running when Jobs toured PARC (it doesn't need "the") - the Smalltalk
system and the predecessor of the "Star", which was probably the first
machine that ran what was recognisably a modern GUI. Lots of reading here;

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/

NextStep was very much *not* the first GUI.


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