Xerox Star

The Xerox Star, officially known as the Xerox 8010 Information System was one of the Xerox Systems Development Division (SDD ) in El Segundo, Calif., develops workstation with a graphical user interface (English graphical user interface, GUI short ).

Many innovations came from the Xerox PARC research center, with some members of the Institute also participating in a branch of SDD in Palo Alto. After 1973 developed for the Xerox Alto Research the user-friendly graphical user interface was first used in a commercial computer in 1981 brought out the star. There was already a controllable via mouse desktop with menus and windows. In addition to an Ethernet interface, the system, like its predecessor, the WYSIWYG display supported.

Often, the star is said that he was a model for the development of the Apple Macintosh. In fact, however, it was the Xerox Alto, the Steve Jobs in 1979 (and two years before the publication of the Star ) during a visit to Xerox PARC to build the Apple Lisa (1983 ) inspired. The Apple Macintosh -based 1984 on the Apple Lisa.

At Xerox PARC, a Lisp machine named Xerox Dandelion has been developed on the basis of 8010, the name Star was referring to the operating system with GUI.

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