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  2. Xerox Alto - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Altos Computer Systems - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Bravo (editor) - Wikipedia

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    Bravo was the base for Gypsy, a later document system on the Alto, the first with a modern graphical user interface. Bravo was followed by BravoX, which was developed in 1979 [ 3 ] under Simonyi's leadership at Xerox's Advanced Systems Development (ASD) group.

  5. Diablo Data Systems - Wikipedia

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    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

  6. Charles P. Thacker - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Category:Xerox computers - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. List of companies of Saudi Arabia - Wikipedia

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    Location of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia is a sovereign Arab state in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. The country's command economy is petroleum-based but slowly diversifying; in 2017 58% of budget revenues and 85% of export earnings came from the oil industry. [1] [2] The country plans to reduce oil-based revenues to ...

  9. Word processor (electronic device) - Wikipedia

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    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 ...