Did You Know? Xerox Alto "Stolen" Apple

Did You Know Vendor Xerox developed the first computer that uses a window-based GUI. Computers that have previously only rely on text as operational.
Named Alto, the computer is already equipped with a mouse, ethernet network, and WSYIWYG text editor (what you see is what you get). But when it launched in 1973, the consumer PC market has not been established.
As a result, the Xerox Alto only distribute to several universities for free. Well, in 1979, Steve Jobs visited Xerox PARC, where the workmanship Alto.
When viewing this computer, he immediately inspired and then implement many of the main features of the Alto to the Lisa and Mac, two PCs are the company developed.
It turned out that the Mac is selling well, while Xerox is eventually followed by marketing the Xerox Star (Alto-based technology) is late to market.

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