In 1983, the Lisa was supposed to be a barnburner. Apple’s brand-new computer had a cutting edge GUI, a mouse, and power far beyond the 8-bit machines that came before. It looked like nothing else on ...
Reverse engineering VisiCorp's pioneering GUI for commodity PCs shows how little modern GUIs get from Xerox – and how much we all owe Apple. Another year, another magisterial chunk of software history ...