In the movie Deckard has a home computer on which he examines the pictures found in the den of a runaway replicant. Immediately other companies began developing their GUI, Microsoft among them. Speaking of which, Gates and Jobs constantly argued about who stole the idea from whom. However, as Apple itself was in a precarious position, risking the claim from Xerox in regard to the same matter, nothing came out of it.
The question of who the author of the first marketed GUI was has remained complicated until now. I just wonder, if they have started developing neuro interface already. Have you, guys?? Englebart's presentation was so impressive that it startled Xerox 's upper management, whose business focused on paper-based machines. Smalltalk was created in in order to give the Alto a graphical interface, and the combination of the interface and newly developed Alto hardware gave birth to the first recognizable computer.
Icons, pop-up menus, scroll buttons, windows that could be stacked one on top of the other: all were the first to be seen on a computer and are still in use in operating systems today. Although the PARC commercially released the Xerox Star in , which was based off the Alto and Smalltalk, it was too expensive and too slow for mass appeal.
Although the Apple II, which featured color graphics as its main selling point, was Apple's main source of income at the time, jobs knew that Apple could cease to exist if it didn't adopt the GUI he had seen at Xerox.
Only Jobs was able to see its potential. Jobs, seeing the GUI's revolutionary potential, incorporated the graphical user interface into Apple's Macintosh K, which was released in Good artists copy. Windows copied the conceptual framework of the Macintosh GUI, right down to the trash can which Microsoft calls a "recycle bin" , and marketed it as a platform for DOS-based computers.
Apple sued, but a less-than-technically inclined court ruled that it is legal to copy the "look and feel" of something if the internal mechanisms are different. This is mostly because, in the United States, the "look and feel" is defined as the "structure, sequence, and organization" of a program.
Apple lost, and Microsoft got to keep its GUI. It was ruled that porting a metaphor to another platform was not criminal. The rest is history. Apple is flailing around and Microsoft is poised for world domination, mostly on the strength of an idea that wasn't Gates' in the first place.
But what a great idea it was. Today, personal computers are relatively easy to use because they are based on a visual language, representing system operations with icons and employing a visual metaphor - the desktop.
The GUI has become standard on the vast majority of desktop computers Unix boxes being the chief exception , to the point where the desktop metaphor is transparent. No one even thinks about it any more; they just use it. When Jobs was embarking on the Macintosh project, he told his team that the computer they were constructing would "put a dent in the universe.
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