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| | Xerox Star - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Star team used a sophisticated integrated development environment known internally as Tajo and externally as Xerox Development Environment or XDE. | | | Initially the Star software was developed on a hardware platform dubbed the Dolphin, however the complexity of the software eventually overwhelmed its limited configuration. | | | The culmination of this development was the Alto, a workstation developed for internal use at Xerox and also distributed on a limited basis to a few universities. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star
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| | Xerox PARC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Xerox PARC was the incubator of many elements of modern computing. | | | Xerox PARC was the first research group to widely adopt the mouse invented by Douglas Engelbart's Augmentation Research Center at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Menlo Park, California. | | | The work at PARC in the years since the early 1980s is often overlooked, but major work since then includes Ubiquitous computing aka Pervasive Computing, Aspect-oriented programming, and IPv6 to name but a few. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_PARC
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| | Xerox Star Research |
| | Star actually refers to the software that was to be used in conjunction of the machine developed by Xerox and not the machine itself, although it's easy to see the misunderstanding. | | | The Star was designed for distributed computing, requiring such components as laser printers, networked computers, and electronic filing cabinets. | | | The software developed for the Star was designed for the user who has no computer knowledge became very demanding on the hardware. |
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http://xeroxstar.tripod.com
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| | The Xerox "Star": A Retrospective |
| | However, using the name Star to refer to the machine is understandable since the machine was designed in conjunction with the software to meet the needs of the software design. | | | Star's designers assumed that the target users are interested in getting their work done and not at all interested in computers. | | | Star's introduction was an important event in the history of personal computing because it changed notions of how interactive systems should be designed. |
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http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star/retrospect
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| | Star Arrangement @ NaturalResearch.org (Natural Research) |
| | The apparent brightness of a star is measured by its apparent magnitude. | | | There are many other mnemonics for star classification. | | | The reason for this limit is not precisely known, but the Eddington limit is part of the answer. |
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http://www.naturalresearch.org/encyclopedia/Star
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| | Bringing Design to Software Profile 2 - STAR |
| | The core concept that distinguished Star (and other Alto programs) from the conventional computer interfaces of their time was the use of a bitmapped screen to present the user with direct visual representations of objects. | | | The Xerox Star was born out of PARC's creative ferment, designing an integrated system that would bring PARC's new hardware and software ideas into a commercially viable product for use in office environments. | | | Because all Star applications were developed in a unified way by a single development group, it was possible to adhere to a coherent and consistent design language (see Chapter 4 for a discussion of design languages). |
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http://hci.stanford.edu/bds/2p-star.html
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| | SmallStar |
| | Star was also interesting because it has a graphical, direct manipulation user interface; it pioneered the desktop metaphor and the use of icons, and was the forerunner in the commercial use of the mouse as a pointing device. | | | SmallStar is a working simulation of the Xerox Star office information system, with programming by demonstration added. | | | The user can choose an object, but the system may have no idea why the user made the choice, because the user has not communicated his or her intentions to the system. |
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http://www.acypher.com/wwid/Chapters/05SmallStar.html
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| | Section 16: GUI and Personal Computers |
| | The Xerox Star was the first commercial personal computer to use the now common desktop metaphor. | | | While mainline computer engineers scoffed at the idea of one computer for each person, the Xerox team built the Alto personal computer. | | | Xerox PARC even had the world's first computer virus called a 'tapeworm' because it would eat it's way through the Ethernet and consume all available resources. |
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http://accad.osu.edu/~waynec/history/lesson16.html
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| | The Xerox Star |
| | Xerox would not license the the MESA programming language or development environment to anyone outside of Xerox. | | | This turned out to be a major drawback as spreadsheet software had become very popular at the time. | | | This meant that no third-party software could be developed for it. |
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http://toastytech.com/guis/star2.html
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| | MacKiDo/Interface/ui_horn1 |
| | The Star was a tremendous accomplishment, with features that current systems haven't even started to implement, though I see OpenDoc as a strong advance past the Xerox systems. | | | In my opinion, the software architectures developed at Xerox for Smalltalk and the Xerox Star were significantly more advanced than either the Mac or Windows. | | | Of course, there were some ex- Xerox people in the Lisa and Mac groups, but the design point for these machines was so different that we didn't leverage our knowledge of the Xerox systems as much as some people think. |
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http://www.mackido.com/Interface/ui_horn1.html
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| | DigiBarn: The Xerox Star 8010 (Dandelion) |
| | The Xerox workstations, while a commercial failure, occupy an important position in the lineage of visual computing systems. | | | The Xerox Star 8010 "Dandelion" is one of the most significant introductions of any computer system. | | | These systems were a full 15 years ahead of their time with sophisticated WYSIWYG document composition, built in Ethernet, email, scanning networked laser printing, development environments including Smalltalk, and much more. |
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http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/index.html
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| | That Guy’s Blog » Back to the Future: Xerox Star |
| | Today in my user-interface class, we watched a video from 1982 that demonstrated the Xerox Star, one of the first commercial computers to feature many “modern” interface features. | | | This really shows how forward-thinking the designers at Xerox PARC were in the earliest days of personal computing. | | | I took some photos of my generic Windows PC and grabbed some archival Xerox Star photos from the DigiBarn Computer Museum. |
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http://www.thatguy.com/blog?p=18
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| | Computer History Museum - Lectures - The Xerox Star Runs One More Time |
| | These quotes from a 1981 Xerox Star brochure show how people were fumbling for words to describe the new computer desktop technology: "Objects displayed on the Xerox 8010 screen are freely movable using the hand-held pointer, or 'mouse'... | | | Seventeen years ago, the computer interface technology we take for granted today was new and strange, difficult even to describe. | | | David Liddle directed the Star development effort, and will provide an overview. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/events/lectures/star_06171998
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| | Xerox Alto computer |
| | The concept of using a visual interface originated in the mid 1970s at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) where a graphical interface was developed for the Xerox Star computer system introduced in April 1981. | | | The Xerox Star did not experience any commercial success, but its ideas were copied by Apple Computer, first in the innovative Lisa in 1983 and then in the Apple Macintosh introduced in January 1984. | | | In 1978, Xerox donated a total of fifty Altos to Stanford, Carnegie-Mellon, and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). |
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http://members.fortunecity.com/pcmuseum/alto.html
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| | Xerox Star |
| | Introduced in April of 1981, the Xerox Star was the first commercial computer to use a Graphical User Interface (GUI). | | | Driving one of the world's first GUI computer at CHI '98 in LA (the 6085) Original Star keyboard can be seen behind the water bottle. | | | Along with its groundbreaking use of windows, the Star also included networking, email and a WYSIWYG wordprocesser in the package. |
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http://vividpicture.com/aleks/xeroxstar
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| | Xerox Star Screen Shots |
| | The Star Was the first commercially available comuter with a graphic user interface (yes, even before the Apple Lisa) |
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http://www.jagshouse.com/xeroxstar.html
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| | Citations: The Xerox Star: A Retrospective - Johnson (ResearchIndex) |
| | The Star s design was heavily 46 influenced by the Smalltalk [Goldberg 83] environment which demonstrated the usefulness of mouse driven, graphical bit mapped user interfaces and had set out the principles of object oriented systems. | | | J. Johnson and others, "The Xerox Star: A Retrospective," IEEE Computer, vol. | | | Johnson et al, "The Xerox Star: A Retrospective", IEEE Computer, 22(9), September 1989, 11-28. |
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http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/context/55183/0
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| | OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum |
| | The Xerox 6085 was the successor of the revolutionary Xerox Star, first commercial computer to use a graphical user interface (GUI) with the familiar desktop, icons and a mouse. | | | I was part of the original team working on the release of the Xerox 6085 PCS (Professional Computer System). | | | Sadly, like the Alto, the 6085 didn't meet a large success in spite of numerous vanguard concepts, mainly because the Xerox marketing policy was, at the time, above all directed towards copiers rather than computers. |
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http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=1052
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| | DigiBarn Documents: Xerox Star Historical Documents (Dave Curbow) |
| | In 1985 Xerox introduced new versions of the hardware and software. | | | It changed the way office workers used computers by presenting a desktop interface, and a mouse -- now standard on most office computers. | | | I have begun collecting historical papers on the development of Xerox software products related to the Star. |
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http://www.digibarn.com/friends/curbow/star
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| | Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing Vol 04, Num 05 |
| | There is no question in the computer industry that the work done at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center in the late '70s and early '80s was of seminal importance to all the graphical user interface designs that became popular during the '80s. | | | The PARC researchers created nearly all of the concepts that have become commonplace today: the mouse as a pointing device, multiple windows to show separate processes within the computer, popup and hierarchical menus, representation of files and programs by icons, giving commands to the computer by dragging icons onto other icons, and so forth. | | | How much of a computer's user interface (which embodies aspects of both artistic design and machine behavior) can be copyrighted has yet to be determined either by statute or by case law. |
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http://www.seyboldreports.com/SRDP/dp4/DP04-05b.htm
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| | ipedia.com: Apple Lisa Article |
| | The Lisa project was started at Apple in 1978 and slowly evolved into a project to design a powerful personal computer with a GUI that would be targeted towards business customers. | | | Much of the design of the Lisa was inspired by the graphical user interface of the Xerox Star wo... | | | Conceptually, the Lisa resembled the Xerox Star in the sense that it was envisioned as an office computing system; consequently, Lisa had two main user modes: the Lisa Office System and the Workshop. |
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http://www.ipedia.com/apple_lisa.html
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| | Xerox Star - Bedeutung, Definition, Erklärung im netlexikon |
| | Der Xerox Star war ein von der Xerox Systems Development Division entwickelter früher Personal Computer mit grafischer Benutzeroberfläche (GUI). | | | Es gab bereits einen per Maus bedienbaren Desktop mit Menüs und Fenstern. | | | Nach dem 1973 für die Forschung entwickelten Xerox Alto wurde in dem 1981 herausgebrachten Star die anwenderfreundliche Benutzerschnittstelle erstmals in einem kommerziellen Computer angewandt. |
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http://www.lexikon-definition.de/Xerox-Star.html
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| | PERQs and software preservation (was: Xerox Star) |
| | Speaking of Emacs, did those Xerox systems ever support a useful text editor like Emacs, or a reasonably useful clone of Emacs? | | | I remember that there was an Emacs like clone called Hemlock for the PERQs running Accent... | | | Alas, the PERQs, from what I can tell, were never much good at communicating with other systems that don't use their proprietary protocols. |
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http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctalk/2001-May/171840.html
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| | Timberwoof's Essays |
| | I liked the way it did some things, and I wish the Mac (and thus Windows) had done them the same way. | | | Moore's Law since 1959: CPU, RAM 1000x since the Star; | | | Windows is much more similar to the Mac than the Mac is to the Star. |
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http://www.timberwoof.com/essays/XeroxStar.html
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| | The Xerox Star : A Retrospective (01 Jan 1989) |
| | Read 33 more articles from Information Flow sorted by date, popularity, or title. | | | This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy | | | The Xerox Star : A Retrospective (01 Jan 1989) |
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http://www.usabilityviews.com/uv004821.html
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| | Xerox Star: A Retrospective |
| | The Xerox Star was the first commercial system to be based on a desktop-metaphor GUI. | | | Star ties all state information to data, not applications | | | It was developed at Xerox PARC and released in 1981. |
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http://www.calpoly.edu/~dgrieb/CSC570/wk2presnt/ericr.htm
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| | Bill Verplank - Professional |
| | A paper on testing for design of the Xerox Star. | | | A paper on testing for redesign of the Microsoft mouse. | | | At Xerox (1978-1986) he participated in testing and refining the Xerox Star |
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http://www.billverplank.com/professional.html
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