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Alto Executive (Exec) CPU: TTL-based, with the ALU built around four 74181 MSI chips. ... The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC ...
BravoX was "modeless", as was Gypsy. While Bravo (and BravoX) were originally implemented in BCPL for the Xerox Alto, BravoX was later re-implemented in a language called "Butte" ("a Butte is a small Mesa", as Charles Simonyi used to say). Alto BCPL compiled into Data General Nova machine instructions, which were in turn interpreted by Alto ...
Altos 686 and 3086. Announced in June 1986, these were a revamping of the 286-based product line. The high-end 3086 supported up to 32 users and had 12.5 MHz processor. This faster processor was now also offered as an upgrade option for the 1086 and 2086 machines, which had a processor board. The 686 model used a 7.5 MHz processor.
Xerox Alto – The first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). [10] [11] VAX-11/780 – The first VAX, the most popular 32-bit computer of the 1980s [9] manufactured by Digital Equipment Corp. [12] Three Rivers PERQ – A commercial computer workstation influenced by the Xerox Alto and first released in 1979. [13]
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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.
While at PARC, Tesler's work included Smalltalk, the first dynamic object-oriented programming language, and Gypsy, 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 of copy and paste functionality and the idea of modeless software.
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.