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Xerox Star’ Interface

May 4, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

The 1981 Xerox Star, or the first commercial system to incorporate various technologies that today have become commonplace, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse, Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers and e-mail.

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Via: Colt+Rane

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