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Who invented the graphical user interface was it IBM, Apple or Microsoft?

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Who invented the graphical user interface was it IBM, Apple or Microsoft?
I'm wondering when the GUI got started and who had the best looking GUI at the time?

I hear Windows 3.1 came out in 1992. But in the 80s DOS was used lot by IBM and Microsoft.

I hear there was Atari computer and had OS in 1985 and Amiga computer and had OS in 1985 as well. But Microsoft took over the market shares with DOS.
The Atari OS in 1985 seems pretty basic at the time.

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The Amiga computers had GUI in 1985

AmigaOS 1.0 was released with the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. The 1.x versions of AmigaOS by default used a blue and orange color scheme, designed to give high contrast on even the worst of television screens

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Note Atari computers seem more ahead at the time and OS better than Amiga.
 
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Don’t know what happen to SunOS or Commodore 64.

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Bubble99 said:
Who invented the graphical user interface was it IBM, Apple or Microsoft?
I'm wondering when the GUI got started and who had the best looking GUI at the time?

I hear Windows 3.1 came out in 1992. But in the 80s DOS was used lot by IBM and Microsoft.

I hear there was Atari computer and had OS in 1985 and Amiga computer and had OS in 1985 as well. But Microsoft took over the market shares with DOS.
The Atari OS in 1985 seems pretty basic at the time.

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The Amiga computers had GUI in 1985

AmigaOS 1.0 was released with the first Amiga, the Amiga 1000, in 1985. The 1.x versions of AmigaOS by default used a blue and orange color scheme, designed to give high contrast on even the worst of television screens

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Note Atari computers seem more ahead at the time and OS better than Amiga.
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These threads you are making are all questions you could quickly answer with a Google search. What’s the point of asking here?
 
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FWIW my Atari ST starts up to the desktop faster than ANY Mac I have owned….. 😬
The OS is on a ROM chip (I think it’s about 2 seconds after flicking the power switch).
 
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For testing we installed a 14-workstation Xerox Star ethernet network back in the early ‘80s. The ethernet cables were 1” thick, and the workstation generated enough heat to keep the office warm in the coldest winters. But the GUI was life-changing, as was interoperability among workstations ushering in a whole lot of learning (token-ring network topology was still a thing for IBM shops, for example), and potential productivity strides. Fun times indeed.
 
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none of them, IIRC it was Xerox


I had an amiga 500. I miss the amiga. Still. IN another universe it would have wiped the floor with the Mac, but commodore were too slow to update the custom chips in it.

While the Mac was running monochrome graphics via CPU, the Amiga had 4096 colours and hardware sprites, etc.

While the Mac had single channel audio, the amiga had 4 channel stereo.

I mean this ran on original Amiga hardware from 1987 assuming you had 512K

 
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theluggage said:
Not the whole GUI concept (that would be Xerox), but a lot of the underpinnings of modern human/computer interaction (including the mouse) were demonstrated by Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute during “The Mother of All Demos” in 1968:

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But at the time in the 80s Microsoft and IBM where using DOS well Apple never had any thing like that it was all GUI in the 80s Apple was using.

I can’t image Steve Jobs allowing command line on their computers.
 
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