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Descubre qué fue el Xerox Alto, por qué se considera el primer GUI influyente de la historia y cómo anticipó ventanas, mouse, red Ethernet y edición WYSIWYG décadas antes del PC moderno.
#Gui, #Retrocomputing, #xeroxalto, #wysiwyg #computerhistory
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Maronno Winchester

Apr 7

Vintage Computer (@vintage.computer)

https://bsky.app/profile/vintage.computer/post/3mivq53vtrk2h

> Tech Spec Tuesday: Xerox Alto (1973): the machine that defined modern computing. GUI, mouse, Ethernet, WYSIWYG… it had it all, decades ahead of its time. The blueprint for today’s personal computer started at Xerox. #VintageComputer #XeroxAlto

data0 Oct 23, 2025

It is widely known that the #XeroxAlto pioneered many aspects of modern computing, or at least integrated them into the #userInterface we still use today.

But it also featured the first #modalEditor with #Bravo (although they eventually replaced it with the modeless #BravoX).

https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/115422978986104778

#modalEditing #vi #vim #BillJoy #unix #posix #xerox #alto #gui #editor

Paolo Amoroso (@[email protected])

How modal editing and `vi` originated and why this is a unique design choice tied to specific circumstances. https://buttondown.com/hillelwayne/archive/modal-editing-is-a-weird-historical-contingency #vi #editor

OldBytes Space - Mastodon

sprungmarkers (she / her)Aug 29, 2025

https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/the-history-of-themeable-user-interfaces/

don‘t know about the #gui of #XeroxAlto :) @bradfrost.com

The History of Themeable User Interfaces

A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time

Brad Frost

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Kevin Karhan

Jul 25, 2025

@0x47df @flacs same designers als the #XeroxAlto and aimed at #print and #legal professionals:with a 9:16 screen!

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Kevin Karhan

Jun 27, 2025

@puniko @cinnamon also makes sense given text editing was the first mainstream application that non-technical folks got.introduced, and #Xerox did also put a portrait-oriented widescreen on the #XeroxAlto #DesktopPublishing #workstation...

Hacker News Jun 9, 2025

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and Rewriting a Running GUI

https://www.righto.com/2017/10/the-xerox-alto-smalltalk-and-rewriting.html

#HackerNews #XeroxAlto #Smalltalk #GUI #Innovation #Computing #History

The Xerox Alto, Smalltalk, and rewriting a running GUI

Be sure to read the comment from Alan Kay at the bottom of the article! We succeeded in running the Smalltalk-76 language on our vintag...

Paolo Amoroso Mar 17, 2025

Using the mouse-driven graphical user interface of a personal computer to write a document with a WYSIWYG word processor, check new messages with an email client, and create an organization chart with a drawing program. Just an ordinary day at Xerox PARC in 1978. When email spam was apparently already a thing.

The demo features the Alto workstation and the Bravo word processor. You can hear the noise of the hard disk.

https://archive.org/details/Xerox_Palo_Alto_Demo_August_1978

#retrocomputing #Xerox #XeroxAlto

Bob Taylor, Barbara Baird: Xerox Alto Demonstration - August 1978 : Bob Taylor; Barbara Baird : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Xerox Alto Demo Demonstration, August 1978Document composition and processingMessage communicationGraphical illustrationPresented by Bob Taylor and Barbara...

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