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How Computing Was Built
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Xerox Star

Experimental Workstation

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The Xerox Star workstation, officially the Xerox Star 8010 Information System, was the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, a two-button mouse, Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers and email.

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Xerox NoteTaker, Systems

The Xerox NoteTaker (1978) and Xerox Star (1981) are both Xerox PARC personal-computing systems of the same design lineage; exact influence direction between them is not confirmed by the NoteTaker's own cited source.

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