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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by pvg on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:00AM (#21387227)
far older that Windows or Mac (even the old Mac)

They are all very nearly the same age.

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Re:Text Editing Hates You Too by musicale on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @07:16PM (#21393110)
Pretty much. The W window system for the V distributed system predates the Macintosh (as does the Apple Lisa/1983), and W was ported to Unix in 1983. Their immediate successors - X and the Macintosh - came out in 1984, and Windows 1.0 in 1985.

Windows 1.0 was fairly primitive, but Windows 2.0 supported overlapping windows (!) in 1987, coincidentally the year that X11 was released.

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