While the Lisa was the first commercial computer with a GUI, it still wasn’t the first computer ever with a GUI. According to Wired, Apple released “the first commercial computer with a graphical user interface” in 1983. Two other companies got there first: Apple and Xerox. Windows wasn’t the first GUI created to solve issues like having to navigate via text commands, though. Windows 1.0 was created to be a graphical user interface (GUI) to be placed on top of MS-DOS, which made PCs that ran MS-DOS easier to navigate - it’s easier to look at a screen and click an icon to open a program than it is to type several commands just to complete the same task. Windows, at least in 1985, wasn’t so much a brand new OS as it was a solution to the complications that an OS like MS-DOS presented. Unlike even the first version of Windows, navigating your PC with MS-DOS was time-consuming, required the manual input of text commands to get anything done, and didn’t allow for multitasking (the ability to run multiple programs at once). In fact, before Windows ever came along, PCs were run by another OS known as MS-DOS. ![]() ![]() Windows might seem like it’s been around forever, but it hasn’t.
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