The Xerox Smalltalk-80 GUI Was Weird

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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...

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Huh, interesting. I guess now I know where BeOS / Haiku got its inspiration for how their windows look.
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  1•2 years ago
  And indeed early Macs. Have a look at some screenshots of System 6!

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