50 Years Later, We're Still Living in the Xerox Alto's World. "Using it feels so familiar and natural that it8217;s sometimes difficult to appreciate just how extraordinary, how different it was when it first appeared." https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto
50 Years Later, We’re Still Living in the Xerox Alto’s World
The Xerox Alto, which debuted in the early spring of 1973, is uncannily familiar today, because we are living in a world of computing that the Alto created. Here's how the Alto came to be.David C. Brock (IEEE Spectrum)
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