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The meteoric progress of desktop computing would never have happened without the catalyst of the user-friendly graphical user interface offered first on the Macintosh and later on the Windows PC. Had the capabilities of desktop machines remained cocooned within the DOS shell, with its blinking C:\ prompt and its arcane commands, the desktop would have remained the domain of the anorak.
Since the dawn of the GUI and its trusty companion, the mouse, progress has been signposted by a succession of landmark software developments. Early among these were word-processors like Microsoft Word and WordPerfect, spreadsheets like Lotus 123 and Excel, graphics applications like Illustrator and Freehand and DTP applications ...
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