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Old 03-03-2025, 07:47 AM   #2521
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Overlapping windows in a GUI, and QuickDraw regions which was the underlying technology that enabled overlapping windows.

Region patent
Overlapping windows were a feature of the Xerox Star 8010, which a) predates that patent by several years, and b) is the source of the various WIMP/WYSIWYG/GUI products. On the matter of patents see ==>> Xerox_Star — 5 Legacy

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