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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by rbanffy on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @07:46PM (#4320317)
The Xerox GUI (as implemented in the Star) had no concept of drag and drop or pull down menus. It didn't expose much of a file system (as Lisa and Mac do).

Apple added all that and Windows 1, after the Lisa was launched, opted to also have them. So, yes. Both Apple and Microsoft borrowed a lot from Xerox, but Microsoft really copied a lot from what Apple did.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by zik on Tuesday July 31, 2012 @11:40PM (#4321080)
Xerox had the first "fixed drop-down menu". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_graphical_user_i...

Apple's Jef Raskin did come up with drag-and-drop though so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by masklinn on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @02:10AM (#4321412)
> so that's pretty much the one original thing they did.

The Star didn't have overlapping windows either I believe (Atkinson believed it did, so he implemented it). I think the clipboard was invented for Lisa as well.

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Re:Samsung reveals its pre-iPhone concepts: 10 touchscreen d... by rbanffy on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @05:43AM (#4321981)
There is more detail here:

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

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