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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by Symmetry on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @04:21PM (#4319396)
Xerox actually wasn't limited to non-overlapping windows, the Xerox Alto which was demoed to Apple had them, it was only the Xerox Star that was sold outside the company that couldn't manage those.
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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by Tloewald on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @08:44PM (#4320519)
Iirc when Andy Herzfeld demoed overlapping Windows with automagic clipping Xerox engineers were flabbergasted. Perhaps Xerox had overlapping windows but clipping was left to applications.

In an event, speaking as someone who actually used Xerox's systems years after the Mac shipped, it was hugely inferior in all important respects to the original Mac UI -- any superficial similarities notwithstanding. Again, see Alan Kay's comment.

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