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Operating Systems => Not Quite Mainstream OSes => Topic started by: avello500 on 2 July 2003, 17:51

Title: xerox
Post by: avello500 on 2 July 2003, 17:51

does anyone know what os was on the computer xerox made for in-house use that featured a mouse and gui?
thanks in advance.

Title: xerox
Post by: samtheman on 7 July 2003, 21:03

the gui machines that xerox made were the xerox alto and the xerox star.

Title: xerox
Post by: jasonlane on 9 July 2003, 15:28

If you want to read all the manuals you can go here. They have an Alto OS manual as well

Xeroc PARC Alto (http://www.spies.com/%7Eaek/alto/)
(note from Orethrius: link is dead, Archive.org (http://web.archive.org/web/20050115090832/http://www.spies.com/~aek/alto/))

Title: xerox
Post by: avello500 on 12 July 2003, 14:25

Quote from: jasonlane

If you want to read all the manuals you can go here. They have an Alto OS manual as well

Xeroc PARC Alto (http://www.spies.com/%7Eaek/alto/)

cool link.
makes me wonder.

Title: xerox
Post by: jasonlane on 12 July 2003, 20:34

About what? You've got my attention now, you can say that without making me very curious.

I'd love a collection of old hardware like this, well I have a collection.

2 Mac LC475
1 IBM 5120 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=794) (circa 1980)

It still works except I need some OS  boot disks to run it.

I'd love some more macs and an Altair (cos they look so cool, but don't do shit) Obviously I'd love all the Xerox machines but you're talkin 1000's $$$

Title: xerox
Post by: avello500 on 13 July 2003, 11:02

im just wondering about file support and how they did little things. makes me wonder if there isnt a holy grail out there.
maybe the archetecture (sp?) is better by design, it just needs updating. maybe whatever kernal they used was incredible just not apprieciated with the right intelect. bill looked at it and said, hmm, i like the screen and hand thingy. steve said , hmm i like the concept. maybe nobody that looked at it  really understands the next level.
i would like to see how the gui and hardware interfaced? how did they pipe in printers? what about audio? what kind of bandwidth did they get, both internal and external? modem? network?

you see where im going with it.

oh i have 3 old macs and a ti99 with speach synth.
i think the macs are 1 classic,1 classicII, i dont remember the last one. there in a closet.

the little classic II works great. boots right up, runs solid and turns off in under 3secs. i just dig it.