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The desktop environment rather than the physical machine initially begun as a research project by Douglas Engelbart for SRI International, who is also attributed for creating the computer mouse to go with it. The term "WIMP" was used to describe "windows, icons, menus, pointer", which is now commonly termed the desktop as we know it today. It was first seen in a computer in the Xerox Alto in 1973, which was the first to have a virtual desktop and mouse, roughly 10 years before the Apple Lisa which is commonly and incorrectly regarded to have been the first.

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