The Star
workstation, officially known as the Xerox 8010 Information System,
was introduced by
Xerox Corporation in 1981. It was the first commercial system to incorporate
various technologies that today have become commonplace in
personal computers, including a
bitmapped display, a window-based
graphical user interface,
icons,
folders,
mouse,
Ethernet
networking,
file
servers,
print
servers and
e-mail.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star)
The
first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman
Steve Jobs
on January 24, 1984.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh)