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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. Dynabook - Wikipedia

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    The ideas led to the development of the Xerox Alto prototype, which was originally called "the interim Dynabook". [8] [9] [10] It embodied all the elements of a graphical user interface, or GUI, as early as 1972. The software component of this research was Smalltalk, which went on to have a life of its own independent of the Dynabook concept.

  4. Category:Xerox computers - Wikipedia

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    Xerox Alto games (1 P) S. Scientific Data Systems (6 P) Pages in category "Xerox computers" ... Xerox Daybreak; Dynabook; N. Xerox NoteTaker; S.

  5. The Mother of All Demos - Wikipedia

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    By 1973, the Xerox Alto was a fully functional personal computer similar to the NLS terminal which Engelbart had demonstrated in 1968, but much smaller and physically refined. With its mouse-driven GUI , the Alto would go on to influence Steve Jobs and Apple 's Macintosh computer and operating system in the 1980s. [ 23 ]

  6. 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.

  7. 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

  8. Smalltalk - Wikipedia

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    Smalltalk-72 was ported to the Xerox Alto in April 1973, the same month the first units began operation. [ 9 ] After significant revisions which froze some aspects of execution semantics to gain performance (by adopting a Simula -like class inheritance model of execution), Smalltalk-76 was created.

  9. William Newman (computer scientist) - Wikipedia

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    William Maxwell Newman (21 May 1939 – 11 June 2019) was a British computer scientist. [1] With others at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s Newman demonstrated the advantages of the raster (bitmap graphics) display technology first deployed in the Xerox Alto personal workstation, developing interactive programs for producing illustrations and drawings.