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Documented the Alto personal computer system, integrating a raster display, keyboard and mouse, local storage, networking and a microcoded processor in an interactive research workstation.
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The record is the exact five-author 1979 technical report about a machine designed beginning in 1973. Other documented Alto contributors and the inventions of Ethernet, Smalltalk, laser printing and the graphical interface retain separate attribution.
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Charles P. Thacker; Edward M. McCreight; Butler W. Lampson; Robert F. Sproull; David R. Boggs
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Thacker and colleagues: Alto, a personal computer
Documented the Alto personal computer system, integrating a raster display, keyboard and mouse, local storage, networking and a microcoded processor in an interactive research workstation.
Scientific scope
The record is the exact five-author 1979 technical report about a machine designed beginning in 1973. Other documented Alto contributors and the inventions of Ethernet, Smalltalk, laser printing and the graphical interface retain separate attribution.
Reading status
This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
Charles P. Thacker; Edward M. McCreight; Butler W. Lampson; Robert F. Sproull; David R. Boggs
The named authors contributed to this scoped work; individual effort shares and later applications are not assigned by the byline.