Xerox Daybreak

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Tue Jun 23 18:18:05 1998

On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

> > Btw: I'm still looking for any genuine Xerox Star. I own two
>
> So am I, actually. The only 2 Xerox machines I have are a Model 3000 word
> processor (seems to be an 8085-based machine) and a Daybreak. I know very
> little about the latter (one day I'll figure it out), but it was cheap
> enought to be worth grabbing.

I went to the "last" Star demo, and somebody (Sam?) asked whether Daybreak
was the code name for a Star prototype, but I didn't hear the answer.
Describe the Daybreak, and somebody who attended the demo can probably
tell you if it's a Star.

IIRC, the Star had both a custom microcoded CPU and had an 8080 (or 8085)
to handle I/O.

-- Doug
Received on Tue Jun 23 1998 - 18:18:05 BST