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#111 The Apple Lisa

Kopec Explains Software

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The Evolution of the Graph User Interface

The Apple II and IBM PC were the dominant two machines at the time. The Lisa was a much more powerful microprocessor, this incredible graphical user interface compared to what came before it. Not every widget that we're familiar with in the graph user interface was present on those original Xerox machines. If the Lisa had not come out, we would not have seen the evolution of the IBM PC from DOS to Windows.

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