Re: Lisa Office System

Marcin,

> I did not research IBM's GUI development in as much detail as I would
> love to, but I think it all happened later. First OS/2 1.1 with GUI
> (joint creation of Microsoft and IBM) was released as late as in 1988.

My undrstanding is IBM investigated an icon-based GUI _before_ there was a Lisa or Macintosh. This interface was called DATALAND. The Lisa GUI history paper by Perkins talks about this a bit.

• David Craig

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