Editing Window (computing) (section)

==History==
[[File:Text windowing in GNU Emacs.png|thumb|Example of windows on a text-only display. Each grey-bordered area is a separate window showing a different file.]]

The idea was developed at the [[Stanford Research Institute]] (led by [[Douglas Engelbart]]).<ref name="ArsTechnica1">{{cite web
| url=https://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars
| title=A History of the GUI (Part 1)
| publisher=Ars Technica
| year=2005
| last=Reimer
| first=Jeremy
| access-date=2009-09-14
| archive-date=2009-09-18
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090918151233/http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars
| url-status=live
}}</ref> Their earliest systems supported multiple windows, but there was no obvious way to indicate boundaries between them (such as window borders, [[title bar]]s, etc.).<ref name="ArsTechnica2">{{cite web
| url=https://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars/2
| title=A History of the GUI (Part 2)
| publisher=Ars Technica
| year=2005
| last=Reimer
| first=Jeremy
| access-date=2009-09-14
| archive-date=2009-09-08
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908032833/http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars/2
| url-status=live
}}</ref>

Research continued at [[Xerox]] Corporation's [[Palo Alto, California|Palo Alto]] Research Center / [[PARC (company)|PARC]] (led by [[Alan Kay]]). They used overlapping windows.<ref name="PARC">{{cite web
| url=https://www.parc.com/about-parc/parc-history/
| title=PARC History - A Legacy Of Innovation And Inventing The Future
| publisher=Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated
| date=19 October 2023
| access-date=8 December 2023
| quote=Xerox PARC debuts the first GUI, which uses icons, pop-up menus, and overlapping windows that can be controlled easily using a point-and-click technique.
| archive-date=3 December 2023
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231203064105/https://www.parc.com/about-parc/parc-history/
| url-status=live
}}</ref>

During the 1980s the term "[[WIMP (computing)|WIMP]]", which stands for window, icon, menu, pointer, was coined at PARC.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}

[[Apple Inc.|Apple]] had worked with PARC briefly at that time. Apple developed an interface based on PARC's interface. It was first used on [[Apple Lisa|Apple's Lisa]] and later [[Mac (computer)|Macintosh]] computers.<ref name="ArsTechnica4">{{cite web
| url=https://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars/4
| title=A History of the GUI (Part 4)
| publisher=Ars Technica
| year=2005
| last=Reimer
| first=Jeremy
| access-date=2009-09-14
| archive-date=2009-09-08
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908032548/http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars/4
| url-status=live
}}</ref> [[Microsoft]] was developing Office applications for the  Mac at that time. Some speculate that this gave them access to Apple's OS before it was released and thus influenced the design of the windowing system in what would eventually be called [[Microsoft Windows]].<ref name="ArsTechnica5">{{cite web
| url=https://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars/5
| title=A History of the GUI (Part 5)
| publisher=Ars Technica
| year=2005
| last=Reimer
| first=Jeremy
| access-date=2009-09-14
| archive-date=2009-09-07
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090907012115/http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2005/05/gui.ars/5
| url-status=live
}}</ref>