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
https://bradfrost.com/blog/post/the-history-of-themeable-user-interfaces/
don‘t know about the #gui of #XeroxAlto :) @bradfrost.com
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
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
Xerox Alto Demo Demonstration, August 1978Document composition and processingMessage communicationGraphical illustrationPresented by Bob Taylor and Barbara...
Why am I so fascinated by such old machines and their presentation? 😍
How the developers of Bravo at Xerox PARC overcame the limitations of Alto to design the first WYSIWYG editor and make it run efficiently.
Sin duda el Xerox Alto era un ordenador muy avanzado para la época, que se usaba para la investigación sobre la interacción humano-tecnológica y el uso de ordenadores.
Inclusive había entornos de programación para esta máquina, como el BCPL y MESA, lenguaje de bajo nivel que podían usar el microcódigo del CPU.
Sin olvidar el SmallTalk y Lisp de alto nivel, interactivos y orientado a objetos.
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