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Encyclopedia: Xerox Alto

The Xerox Alto, developed at Xerox PARC in 1973, was an early minicomputer and the first computer to use the desktop metaphor and graphical user interface (GUI). While often cited as the first personal computer,^[1] some earlier systems like the Datapoint 2200 fit the term at least as well. Additionally, the Alto was in no way meant to become a commercially mass-produced item, and never became such.

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	(Japanese)	Alto
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Timeline of hypertext technology

) 1968 FRESS (File Retrieval and Editing System) NLS (oN-Line System) 1973 Xerox Alto desktop 1975 ZOG 1976 PROMIS 1978 Aspen Movie Map 1980 ENQUIRE (not released) 1981 Xerox Star...

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Butler Lampson

Alto?" In 1973, the Xerox Alto, with its two-button mouse and full page sized-monitor, was born and... was one of the founder members of Xerox PARC in 1970, where he worked in the Computer Science.... Lampson helped work on revolutionary technologies such as the Alto personal distributed computing system...

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Bert Sutherland

Xerox Alto "personal" computer, outside of the lab to allow people to use it in a corporate setting... Systems Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC (1975 - 1981), and the Computer Science Division of Bolt, Beranek...

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BitBLT

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Graphics processing unit

independent programming capability, beginning with the BitBLT operation found in the Xerox Alto computer...

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CamelCase

Mesa programming language developed for the Xerox Alto computer. This machine lacked an underscore... programming languages — such as Mesa, the systems programming language of the Xerox Alto, or the modern..., because it yielded legible compound names with fewer keystrokes and fewer characters. The "Alto...

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Mesa programming language

Mesa is a programming language developed at Xerox PARC that was used to program the Xerox Alto (one of the first personal computers with a graphical user interface), and later the Xerox Star... Xerox's own stack-based workstations such as the Alto, the 8010 (Dandelion) and the smaller and...

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Graphical user interface

Engelbart) for use in its On-Line System. The concept was greatly refined and extended by Xerox PARC, which used it as the primary interface for the Xerox Alto computer. Most modern general-purpose GUIs...

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Apple Macintosh

pioneering GUI technology being developed at Xerox PARC from former Xerox employees such as Jef Raskin, Steve Jobs negotiated a visit to see the Xerox Alto computer and Smalltalk development tools in... (PowerBook Duo, 1992) History Steve Jobs and a number of Apple engineers visited Xerox PARC in...

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Data General Nova

over a decade following its introduction. The Nova influenced the design of both the Xerox Alto...

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