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It was designed to provide multi-programming services for online (interactive) user programs in addition to batch-mode production jobs, symbiont I/O, and critical real-time processes. System daemons , called "ghost jobs" were used to run monitor code in user space.
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
Front of the Xerox Sigma 9. On display at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington. The Xerox Sigma 9, also known as the XDS Sigma 9, is a high-speed, general purpose computer. Xerox first became interested in office automation through computers in 1969 and purchased Scientific Data Systems or SDS.
Xerox was founded in 1906 in Rochester, New York, as the Haloid Photographic Company. [11] It manufactured photographic paper and equipment. In 1938, Chester Carlson, a physicist working independently, invented a process for printing images using an electrically charged photoconductor-coated metal plate [12] and dry powder "toner".
PARC entrance. SRI Future Concepts Division (formerly Palo Alto Research Center, PARC and Xerox PARC) is a research and development company in Palo Alto, California. [2] [3] [4] It was founded in 1969 by Jacob E. "Jack" Goldman, chief scientist of Xerox Corporation, as a division of Xerox, tasked with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems.
The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard in personal computers, including a bitmapped display, a window-based graphical user interface, icons, folders, mouse (two-button), Ethernet networking, file servers, print servers, and email.
Conduent Inc. is an American business services provider company headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. It was formed in 2017 as a divestiture from Xerox. [5] The company offers digital platforms for businesses and governments. [6] [7] [8] As of 2021, it had over 31,000 employees working across 22 countries. [4]
The Xerox 500 series is a discontinued line of computers from Xerox Data Systems (XDS) introduced in the early 1970s as backward-compatible upgrades for the Sigma series machines. Although orders for the Xerox 530 were deemed "encouraging" as of January 1974, [ 1 ] the systems had failed to gain traction by the time Xerox sold its Data Systems ...