macdude425 said:Xerox never implemented the GUI?
Not as a personal computer, no.
Those were $16,000 machines that were made to be used in conjunction with Xerox's other office products. Not to mention that the Star was a complete failure...
Xerox PARC members were working with Apple at the time of the GUI's birth, so you can't 'steal' an idea if the people who originally had the idea are working for you.
And it wasn't the Star where Apple got their inspiration, it was the Smalltalk