The Xerox Alto absolutely FASCINATES me. Everything about it, just... HOW? HOW do you run an OS with a foldered file system and a windowed GUI, with Ethernet networking capabilities, driven with a mouse, all on nothing but 7400-series TTL ICs from 1973?! The CS1 professor I had last semester actually worked on the Xerox Alto. He would always go on about how frustrating it was that the Xerox execs just didn't understand how innovative the machine was. He was there the day Steve Jobs came to visit. He's still a bit bitter over the fact Steve got most of the "innovative" idea that the Macintosh was applauded for from the Alto, a computer which existed 10 years prior to the Macintosh. I was a computer tech for Data point back in the 70's and CTC 2200 ( and later 5500 and 6600) formed the score of their commercial systems. No way were these a candidate for personal computer use. These ran a sophisticated programming language, could support about 16 async terminals ...
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