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mhd
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Blit: a multitasking, windowed Unix GUI from 1982
While the pedigree does stretch back a bit, I wouldn't call Acme "early". The paper came out in '94…
fosap
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Well, that the "modern" part. The interface itself is by Writh, no idea when h published a paper about it, that the "early" part.
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Acme is based on the Oberon system (1985)
mhd
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Which in turn took quite some influence from Cedar/Mesa at Xerox. But one might as well say that KDE 4.9 (2012) is based on MacOS (1984), that doesn't make it an "early GUI" in my eyes.
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