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Old 10-09-2011, 07:26 AM   #158
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Originally Posted by Kubizo View Post
Steve Jobs INVENTED THE MOUSE! Exactly, the little thing everyone has used to post on this thread was first released on an Apple computer, in the early days at Apple. True, there had been prototypes before, but never (at least to my knowledge) a complete package of a visual operating system with windows before Microsoft released windows.
You are mistaken. Mice have been around since the late 1960s, and computers such as the Xerox Alto used both a mouse and a graphical user interface. The Alto influenced both the Macintosh and early Sun workstations.

The first commercially-sold computer to use a mouse and a GUI was the Xerox Star, released in 1981, three years earlier than the first Mac.

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