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Originally Posted by pdurrant
I did, of course, know about the Xerox Star. But I was under the mistaken impression that it could not overlap windows.
Instead, I beleive the limitation was that windows could only be re-drawn in full, even if overlapped.
Whereas on the Lisa/Mac, overlapped windows could be redrawn, thanks to regions.
Fascinating blog with photos from early Lisa interface development: https://www.folklore.org/Busy_Being_Born.html |
It's also not all about "invention", per se - all advances are made building on previous work.
People can quibble that Apple didn't "invent" the smartphone, didn't "invent" the iPod, iPad etc., but they most certainly did the work to convert those ideas into a useable product. That's actually a much harder thing to do.