The Xerox Alto History
Enviado em 2 março 2010 |
A história do projeto do primeiro computador para uso pessoal. Inventado pela XEROX, não teve muito respaldo na época e acabou tendo seu projeto abandonado.
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Tags: ALTO, computador, History, Jobs, Steve, XEROX
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it’s a precious video for computer’s history!
what section of Triumph of the Nerds is it from? I’m trying to find the whole thing
Accidental Empires.
Thanks to X.Cringley for coming up with this video, nobody would have known the real truth… Damn “pirates of silicon valley” for making it into a drama.. Man if every mac and pc user were bound and forced to watch this video, they’d humble themselves and admit that Linux is not a rip off of the Mac and Windows machines.. It doesn’t really matter who copies who.. The bottom line is the idea is important, not who did it first.
pc = windows.. oops..
This was at the time Steve was building NeXT, I bet he fired those research people from apple when he got back
The Apple “stole” Xerox’s idea notion is a misnomer. After PARC folks saw the NYC HQ honchos were clueless of taking their Alto office technology anywhere, they might’ve well been inclined to “leak” the fruits of their sweat and toil for someone else to fulfill than see it die on the vine from incompetence (echoes of Amiga). That Apple was slipped into PARC after the NYC visit — and that nothing leaked about Alto before hints such. A similar situation occurred at Grumman where Dad worked..
Jobs wasn’t invited, he demanded to see what the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
“Even the French” - 6:53
WTF! LOL