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		juiceandjuice on May 26, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Linux: The Source of All Desktop Innovation The 80s. Originally out of PARC. Also, while Project Looking Glass (Sun) may have borrowed some stuff from Quartz, Apple borrowed a lot of UI stuff from Project Looking Glass

andreaja on May 26, 2011 | [–]

I liked the Looking Glass demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMWd1FOgr18

aidenn0 on May 26, 2011 | [–]

Thus confirming that any GUI feature that I don't know where it came from, came from PARC.

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