The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or...
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PARC (company) (redirect from Xerox Palo Alto Research Center)
Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. It was founded...
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Larry Tesler (section Xerox PARC)
the first word processor with a graphical user interface (GUI) for the Xerox Alto. During this, along with colleague Tim Mott, Tesler developed the idea...
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development market. The Xerox Star system's concept owes much to the Xerox Alto, an experimental workstation designed by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)...
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NYSE from 1961 to 2021, and the Nasdaq since 2021. Researchers at Xerox and its Palo Alto Research Center invented several important elements of personal...
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Computer mouse (redirect from Xerox Alto mouse)
surfaces. Around 1981, Xerox included mice with its Xerox Star, based on the mouse used in the 1970s on the Alto computer at Xerox PARC. Sun Microsystems...
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Mazewar by Jim Guyton, Mike Wahrman, and colleagues at Xerox for the Xerox Alto computer. The Xerox version went on to inspire many different takes on the...
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Bravo (editor) (redirect from Xerox Bravo)
multi-font capability using the bitmap displays on the Xerox Alto personal computer. It was produced at Xerox PARC by Butler Lampson, Charles Simonyi and colleagues...
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interactive and soon had their own operating systems. The minicomputer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers because...
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The Xerox Development Environment was one of the first Integrated development environments (IDEs). It was first implemented on the Xerox Alto in 1977...
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12, 2017) was an American pioneer computer designer. He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface...
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personal computer was captured in the 1972 memo entitled "Why Alto?". In 1973, the Xerox Alto, with its three-button mouse and full-page-sized monitor, was...
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Xerox Network Systems (XNS) is a computer networking protocol suite developed by Xerox within the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. It provided general...
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Mesa (programming language) (category Xerox)
programming language developed in the mid 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in Palo Alto, California, United States. The language name was a pun...
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2D video game. The name comes from the bit blit operation of the 1973 Xerox Alto, which stands for bit-block transfer. A blit operation is more than a...
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Gypsy (software) (category Xerox)
program, a successor to the Bravo on the Xerox Alto personal computer. It was designed and implemented at Xerox PARC in 1975 by Larry Tesler and Timothy...
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Steve Jobs (category Businesspeople from Palo Alto, California)
mass-produced microcomputers. Jobs saw the commercial potential of the Xerox Alto in 1979, which was mouse-driven and had a graphical user interface (GUI)...
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ran the Smalltalk VMs were Xerox Alto computers. Smalltalk was the product of research led by Alan Kay at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC); Alan...
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Alto Trek is a computer game, developed by Gene Ball and Rick Rashid for the Xerox Alto while they were graduate students at the University of Rochester...
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a Dover printer was available at the MIT AI Lab in 1982, hosted by a Xerox Alto computer. "Dover Laser Printer". Computer History Museum. 1976. Retrieved...
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Xerox. They began work on what would eventually become the Xerox Alto. In 1973, Xerox completed work on the first personal computer, the Xerox Alto,...
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information, in the tradition of the computer science research at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Designing the visual composition and temporal behavior...
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The Xerox NoteTaker is a portable computer developed at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto, California, in 1978. Although it did not enter production, and only around...
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previously developed Micro-SPL, a systems programming language for the Xerox Alto. Action! is largely a port of Micro-SPL concepts to the Atari with changes...
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Vintage computer (section Xerox)
engineers to visit Xerox in order to see the Alto. The design concepts of the Alto soon appeared in the Apple Lisa and Macintosh systems. The Xerox Star, also...
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The Xerox Alto which contained the first working commercial GUI used a stacking window manager. Early 1980s: The Xerox Star, successor to the Alto, used...
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minicomputer of all time, manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation. Xerox Alto – The first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface...
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service to use the Internet in 1989. In May 1979, Xerox ran a television advertisement for its 1973 Xerox Alto system, demonstrating the 1978 Distributed Message...
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used on the Xerox Alto computer, which was considered technologically well ahead of its time when the system was first developed. Xerox product marketers...
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The Xerox 9700 was a high-end laser printer manufactured by Xerox Corporation beginning in 1977. Based on the Xerox 9200 copier, the 9700 printed at 300...
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