The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird

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As part of my ongoing interest in the origins of object-oriented programming and design patterns like MVC, I started to think the best wa...

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1704716

At first glance, this looks incredibly similar to something like the desktop of the Apple Lisa or early Mac OS. It’s easy to see why people might think that Apple sort of stole the graphical user interface from it’s rich neighbor Xerox. It’s not true, though.