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far older that Windows or Mac (even the old Mac)

They are all very nearly the same age.




Pretty much. The W window system for the V distributed system predates the Macintosh (as does the Apple Lisa/1983), and W was ported to Unix in 1983. Their immediate successors - X and the Macintosh - came out in 1984, and Windows 1.0 in 1985.

Windows 1.0 was fairly primitive, but Windows 2.0 supported overlapping windows (!) in 1987, coincidentally the year that X11 was released.




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