Xerox Alto/Star archives?

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Sep 21 19:33:34 2000

On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, sjm wrote:

> 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?

Nope. I forget his name but he used to work at Xerox. A younger guy (in
his 30s).

> 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).

I don't think any GUI today matches the functionality of the Star GUI.

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