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The assertion that the Macintosh was the first personal computer to feature beautiful typography and proportionally spaced fonts is incorrect. This claim is a popular historical myth often attributed to a 2005 commencement speech by Steve Jobs. Records from the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center confirm that the Xerox Alto developed in 1973 was the first system to utilize a bitmapped display and a graphical user interface supporting proportionally spaced fonts. The Xerox Star 8010 was a commercial personal workstation released in 1981 that also included advanced typographic features years before the Macintosh debuted. Even within Apple history, the Lisa computer launched in 1983 and featured multiple proportionally spaced typefaces prior to the release of the Macintosh in 1984. The Macintosh is more accurately credited with popularizing and commoditizing desktop publishing for the mass market rather than being the first to implement the technology.