The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that...
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Xerox Holdings Corporation (/ˈzɪərɒks/, ZEER-ocks) is an American corporation that sells print and digital document products and services in more than...
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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 Parc)
scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems. Xerox PARC has been...
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Xerox Daybreak (also Xerox 6085 PCS, Xerox 1186) is a workstation computer marketed by Xerox from 1985 to 1989. Daybreak is the final release in the D*...
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Computer mouse (redirect from Xerox Star 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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originally designed by Norm Cox as part of the user interface for the Xerox Star personal computer, introduced in 1981. Cox described the icon's creation...
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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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David Canfield Smith (section Xerox Star)
designer at Xerox in the Xerox Systems Development Division. Smith was one of the six principal designers of the user interface for the Xerox Star computer...
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designed for intraoffice memos in 1978. The development team for the Xerox Star began using electronic mail in the late 1970s. Development work on DEC's...
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Ethernet (redirect from Xerox Ethernet)
of the Xerox Star workstation and 3Com's Ethernet LAN products. With such business implications in mind, David Liddle (General Manager, Xerox Office Systems)...
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Lisp machine (redirect from Xerox Dolphin)
the Xerox Star office system. These included the Xerox 1100, Dolphin (1979); the Xerox 1132, Dorado; the Xerox 1108, Dandelion (1981); the Xerox 1109...
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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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metaphor was the experimental Xerox Alto, and the first commercial computer that adopted this kind of interface was the Xerox Star. The use of window controls...
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Tiling window manager (section Xerox PARC)
The first Xerox Star system (released in 1981) tiled application windows, but allowed dialogs and property windows to overlap. Later, Xerox PARC also...
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generic information, in the tradition of the computer science research at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Designing the visual composition and temporal...
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systems. 1970s: The Xerox Alto which contained the first working commercial GUI used a stacking window manager. Early 1980s: The Xerox Star, successor to the...
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of the tar file archiver Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation Kleene star, a wildcard symbol used in computer science Star (game theory), a position...
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Recording Machine, Accounting (ERMA) Mark 1 published in 1958 as well as by Xerox Star, is used in almost all modern operating systems' desktop environments...
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kinds The first public implementation of compound documents was on the Xerox Star workstation, released in 1981. A vBook is an eBook that is digital first...
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Xerox's shooting Star computer". New Scientist. February 15, 2012. Archived from the original on April 18, 2022. Retrieved April 18, 2022; "The Xerox...
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limited to the engineers at Xerox PARC, the Alto had features years ahead of its time. Both the Xerox Alto and the Xerox Star would inspire the Apple Lisa...
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Mesa (programming language) (category Xerox)
system programming language of the later Xerox Star workstations, and for the GlobalView desktop environment. Xerox PARC later developed Cedar, which was...
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first to produce a GUI using stacking windows. In the early 1980s, the Xerox Star, successor to the Alto, used tiling for most main application windows...
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encoding standards. Some particularly innovative work was begun at Xerox. The Xerox Star workstation used a multi-byte encoding that allowed it to support...
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GlobalView (category Xerox)
functionality. It was developed at Xerox PARC as a way to run the software originally developed for their Xerox Alto, Xerox Star and Xerox Daybreak 6085 specialized...
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(including 40 shapes specifically for drawing forms), and development of Xerox Star-influenced environments such as the Macintosh, GEM and Windows made bit-mapped...
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included in the Xerox Star can be seen as a direct descendant of it. In late 1978, in parallel with but independent of the work at Xerox PARC, Hewlett-Packard...
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Vintage computer (section Xerox)
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 known...
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System (EDS, aka Document Presentation System) Kussmaul Encyclopedia Xerox Star desktop 1982 Guide 1983 Knowledge Management System (KMS, successor to...
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