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From: eliot@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Eliot Miranda)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Historical architectural advances??
Summary: What about the Alto
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Date: 9 Oct 90 17:31:30 GMT
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I think you have to include the Xerox Alto (ancestor of the Xerox D
machines). It was the first personal computer with
all of the following
        a raster scanned display
        keyboard/mouse (with buttons)
        cartridge hard disc
        interface to ethernet
        multitasking microprogramming (8 different microcode
                tasks at different priorities)

It was the first machine to run Smalltalk & the first machine
to run a WIMP interface.

Alto: A Personal Computer
Thacker, McCreight,Lampson,Sproul,Boggs
in
Computer Structures: Principles & Examples
Siewiorek,Gordon Bell & Newell
pp 549-572
McGraw Hill
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