Title
The Xerox Alto: A Personal Retrospective, lecture by Charles (Chuck) Thacker and Butler Lampson
Catalog Number
102706024
Type
Moving Image
Description
From abstract: " Thirty years ago, the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center created, over a relatively short period, a paradigm shift in computing. Many of the technologies that make today's personal computers attractive, including high-quality graphical user interfaces, window systems, networked distributed computing, and laser printing, were mature technologies at PARC by the end of the '70s. The platform on which many of these technologies were developed was the Alto personal computer. Although small and slow by today's standards, the Alto's flexibility made it an ideal system for hardware and software experimentation. In this talk, Chuck Thacker and Butler Lampson describe a few of the applications and technologies the Alto enabled, as well as the exceptional working environment at PARC and the extraordinarily talented group of people who made it all happen."
Date
2001-06-04
Credits
Thacker, Charles (Chuck); Lampson, Butler W.
Publisher
NASA Ames Research Center
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA, US
Format
DVD
Copyright Holder
CHM
Category
Lecture