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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.
The Altos 486 was however based on an 8-MHz Intel 80186 processor and also ran Xenix. It was however cheaper than their 586. [23] Altos 886, 1086, and 2086. Based on a 80286 central processor, and intended to support 8, 10, and respectively 20 users at terminals. The 886 used a 7.5 MHz processor, while in the other two it ran at 8 MHz. [24]
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.
The Xerox Star and its successor the Xerox Daybreak, despite their technological breakthroughs, did not sell well due to its high price, retailing at US$16,000 per unit (equivalent to $54,000 in 2023). A typical Xerox Star-based office, complete with network and printers, would have cost US$100,000 (equivalent to $335,000 in 2023).
The Xerox 820-II [7] followed in 1982, featuring a Z80A processor clocked at 4.0 MHz. Pricing started at US$3,000 (equivalent to $9,500 in 2023). [8] Hardware: The processor board is located inside the CRT unit, and includes the Z80A, 64 KB of RAM and a boot ROM which enables booting from any of the supported external drives in 8-bit mode.
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.
Gypsy was the first document preparation system based on a mouse and graphical user interface to take advantage of those technologies to virtually eliminate modes.Its operation would be familiar to any user of a modern personal computer.
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.