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Photos: The birth of the Lisa and Mac interface

by ZDNet Author  |  July 19, 2006 11:35am PDT  |  Image 25 of 53

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This picture shows that windows can be repositioned by dragging a gray outline. The team wanted to drag the whole window, like modern user interfaces do today, but the processors weren't fast enough in those days. As far as Hertzfeld knows, the NeXTStep was the first system to do it the modern way.

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