User Interface of Xerox Star
User Interface of Xerox Star
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Back in the day we had Xerox Stars as personal workstations, at retail a network of 5 machines cost 3.5 times as much as my first house. The Interlisp environment was the best programming environment ever devised.
Interesting historical factoids, the GUI interface we all accept today was a side effect of a research project looking at how to make increasingly more complex photocopiers easier to use (although the Alto and Star workstations were the first visible 'product'). Ethernet was devised as an means of sharing and connecting photocopiers and printers to workstations. Xerox PARC was at one time the home of the gods, heroes led by mules.