apr 1, 1973 - Alto
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Not commercially released
Xerox PARC (palo alto research center)
Thacker
Kay
Lampson
Taylor
four units: processor and disk storage cabinet, bit-mapped graphics display, keyboard and mouse to facilitiate graphics manipulation and control
16-bit custom made processor similar to Data general Nova 1220
research group introduced desktop metaphor and extended Engelbart's windows graphical environment
over lapping window, pop-up menus, and icons
word processing program called Bravo (WYSIWYG)
Kay made Smalltalk (a new interactive object-oriented programming language)
Ethernet network connected Alto computers and peripherals. comms software based on ARPANET concepts
synthesis of hardware and software to facilitat a friendly user interface would be used by Apple and Microsoft
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