Xerox Alto/Star archives?

From: sjm <sethm_at_loomcom.com>
Date: Thu Sep 21 17:04:58 2000

On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 01:23:49PM -0700, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> Hey, Seth.
>
> A local guy in the Bay Area is currently working on related matters. He's
> writing a MESA emulator. He's borrowed a couple manuals from me.

Is that Al Kossow?

> I have applications for the 6085, and also some manuals for that machine
> and the 8010. Of course, as always, it's buried somewhere, but I'm slowly
> unearthing everything as I move it to the new location.
>
> Anyway, if you ever want to come over and dig around for this sort of
> stuff, you're welcome.

Thanks, Sellam! I may take you up on the kind offer at some point.

I've never written anything as low-level as an emulator (I'm strictly
an applications guy), but this is the sort of thing I've become most
interested in recently. The Xerox stuff is enormously cool from a GUI
perspective, it makes me think I should at least do a Xerox Star GUI
theme for Gnome/GTK/Enlightenment as a start (I know, it's a different
machine, but I admire the look and feel).

-Seth
Received on Thu Sep 21 2000 - 17:04:58 BST