A bit of Xerox history.

From: Glenatacme_at_aol.com <(Glenatacme_at_aol.com)>
Date: Sun Jun 20 22:17:18 1999

In a message dated 6/20/99 10:32:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
cmcmanis_at_mcmanis.com writes:

> The computers built by PARC were:
> ALTO - this was a prototype microcode loadable machine
> with CDC disk pack attached. Generally credited to
> be the machine that was running the software that
> inspired the Mac and later windows (Charles went to
> work for Microsoft from PARC)
> ALTO II - Was Xeroxes attempt to manufacture the Alto as a
> product. (they weren't very successful)
> DANDELION - Officialy the Xerox 8010 Workstation. Which ran
> a set of applications called "Star" or "The Star
> Document Processing System"
> DORADO - ECL version of the "D-machine" architecture that
> was the machine that ran Smalltalk really quickly.
>
> Both the Alto and the Dandelion also ran XDE (called "tahoe") which was the
> "Xerox Development Environment" and it ran on top of an operating system
> called "Pilot".
>
> This first-hand from the Network Services Architect for the Office Systems
> Business Unit in Palo Alto, who also happens to be my wife of nearly 16
> years.

Well, maybe my ex was wrong . . . again . . . ;>)

Glen Goodwin
0/0
Received on Sun Jun 20 1999 - 22:17:18 BST