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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.
Altos Computer Systems was founded in 1977 by David G. Jackson and Roger William Vass Sr. It focused on small multi-user computers, starting with multi-user derivatives of CP/M , and later including Unix and Xenix -based machines.
Bravo was a modal editor—characters typed on the keyboard were usually commands to Bravo, except when in "insert" or "append" mode, in which case they were entered into the character buffer. Bravo made extensive use of the mouse for marking locations in the text, as well as selecting areas of the text, but it was not used for command entry.
Charles Patrick "Chuck" Thacker (February 26, 1943 – June 12, 2017) was an American pioneer computer designer. [3] He designed the Xerox Alto, which is the first computer that used a mouse-driven graphical user interface (GUI).
Powerful personal computers (including the Xerox Alto and later "D-machines") with windowed displays and graphical user interfaces that inspired the Apple Lisa and Macintosh. The Computer Science Laboratory built the Alto, which was conceived by Butler Lampson and designed mostly by Charles P. Thacker, Edward M. McCreight, Bob Sproull and David ...
Redfearn, who only recently took the job, has publicly said that he’s anxious to solve the case. Boulder Chief of Police Stephen Redfearn has vowed to finally solve the case. Boulder Police Dept.
For months, protesters swarmed the courtroom in France, cheering Gisele Pelicot and the feminist motto her case sparked – 'shame must change sides.' 51 'Mr. Everymans' were found guilty of rape ...
Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., is set to have his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday morning to become the next secretary of state under President-elect Donald Trump.. Rubio, 53, would be ...