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The first commercially available computer system that used a windows based OS was the Xerox Star (1981) this influenced Apple's development of their own Lisa (1983) and Macintosh (1984) windows based systems, a system called GEM created by Digital Research (1985) and Microsoft's Windows (1985).

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