21 Dec
2015
21 Dec
'15
5:34 p.m.
From: Adrian Graham
Overblown salesmanship aside, technically I suppose
they're right.
Well, I don't think so. According to Wikipedia (I know, I know), the Lisa was
released on January 19, 1983, but the Xerox Star (AKA Dandelion):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
was introduced in 1981, almost two years before. The Star was supposed to be
a commercial product version of the Alto, and although it had many issues, it
did have an advanced version of the graphic-based user interface that is now
universal - icons, etc, etc. And it had a mouse.
Noel