2007-03-28 19:33:18 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The first GUI was invented at the Xerox Palo Alto (Ca.) Labs, complete with mouse pointing device. Steve Jobs saw it there on a tour of the labratory, and supposedly he told them that if they didn't do anything commercial with it, that he would. He formed Apple Computer Company with Steve Wozniak, and the rest is history.
2007-03-28 19:40:51 · answer #1 · answered by dkarlsenyh 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The first graphical user interface was the Sage Project. A system used by Norad in the 60's to intercept Missles and Bombers.
The first GUI to be used with a computer OS was the WIMP (windows, icons, menus and pointers) program, which was used in the 70's by Xerox in the experimental computer called the Xerox Alto.
The Macintosh, released in 1984, was the first commercial product to successfuly use a GUI.
Hope that helps....
2007-03-28 19:44:00 · answer #2 · answered by Taba 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Definitely not a Mac, since Mac OS came from copying the idea from Xerox Alto. but there are few GUIs coming around the same time as Alto. Because Apple nearly made an exact duplicate of Alto GUI Xerox had good ground to take Apple to the cleaners except their sue was way past statue of limitation after Apple suing Microsoft.
Even as commercial product, Mac is not first, there was a game computer that had green desktop... Atari ST now I remember; a GUI as predecessor of Mac was in Apple IIe or maybe gs, I don't know.
2007-03-28 19:46:20 · answer #3 · answered by Andy T 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I am not shure when it came out but the first graphical operating system was created by Xerox (the company that males photocopiers and laser printers now) that was closley followeb by Mac.
2007-03-28 19:37:56 · answer #4 · answered by Dan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Looking at the facts, looks like the "On-Line System" in 1968 was a very early and rudimentary GUI, consisting of hyperlinks that you could manipulate with a mouse. There was also a few GUI type projects initiated by Xerox that look freakishly like Macintosh. But it's generally accepted that the first "consumer" GUI (Graphical User Interface) is the one and only Macintosh.
2007-03-28 19:35:44 · answer #5 · answered by nasonguy 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The original Mac Os was the first widely-used operating system.
There was a guy who created a GUI way back in the sixties, it was the basis for the Xerox "Star".
2007-03-28 19:42:04 · answer #6 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The first successful product to use a GUI was the Macintosh computer.
See source for details.
2007-03-28 19:37:25 · answer #7 · answered by p37ry 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
apple I i think
2007-03-28 19:35:41 · answer #8 · answered by ryan_macalinao5472 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋