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Xerox Star 8010 Interface

The promise of WYSIWYG: the editing interface on the screen resembles the output on paper.

The image shows a Xerox Star, which is a 1981 product with which Xerox tries to commercialise their Xerox Alto (1972). The influential Xerox Alto project had premiered WYSIWYG text editing among many other techniques, and heavily influenced the Apple Macintosh.