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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 personal computers , and its development pioneered many aspects of modern computing.
Jef Raskin's visit to Xerox PARC, known among the American computer industry for the Xerox Alto, in the early 1970s also changed the course of Lisa's development. Raskin would have his student at University of California, San Diego , software engineer Bill Atkinson , convince Steve Jobs to visit PARC, and Jobs would recognize the value of GUIs ...
The Altos 486 was however based on an 8-MHz Intel 80186 processor and also ran Xenix. It was however cheaper than their 586. [23] Altos 886, 1086, and 2086. Based on a 80286 central processor, and intended to support 8, 10, and respectively 20 users at terminals. The 886 used a 7.5 MHz processor, while in the other two it ran at 8 MHz. [24]
Because the impetus for the RISC-V development was the paucity of open-source processor designs for the RAMP project (both Asanovic and Patterson were PIs), it is fitting that Thacker played a role in this important future technology. Thacker died of complications from esophageal cancer on June 12, 2017, in Palo Alto, California, aged 74. [15]
Xerox Alto games (1 P) S. Scientific Data Systems (6 P) Pages in category "Xerox computers" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
1973: The Xerox Alto, where the term bit blit originated, has a bit block transfer instruction implemented in microcode, making it much faster than the same operation written on the CPU. [1] The microcode was implemented by Dan Ingalls. [1] 1978: The Bally Astrocade home console ships with primitive blitter hardware. [3]
Diablo Data Systems was a division of Xerox created by the acquisition of Diablo Systems Inc. for US$29 million in 1972, [1] [2] a company that had been founded in 1969 by George E. Comstock, Charles L. Waggoner and others. [3] [4] The company was the first to release a daisy wheel printer, in 1970. Metal Daisy Wheel for Xerox & Diablo printers
The mid-to-late 1980s saw the spread of laser printers, a "typographic" approach to word processing, and of true WYSIWYG bitmap displays with multiple fonts (pioneered by the Xerox Alto computer and Bravo word processing program), PostScript, and graphical user interfaces (another Xerox PARC innovation, with the Gypsy word processor which was ...