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The first personal computer, Xerox Alto, appeared 50 years ago this month.
It was also the first to feature a graphical interface controlled by a mouse and to incorporate networking.
All modern end-user computers owe three defining aspects of their design to the Alto.
The machine was the machine that made object-oriented programming mainstream.
The Lisa's source is now available, and there's an emulator too.
By 1983, Apple's Lisa OS 1.0 looked much more like today's GUIs.
The Mac's original designer Jef Raskin had already spent time at PARC before he worked at Apple.
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