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Showing posts with label alto. Show all posts

"Hello world" in the BCPL language on the Xerox Alto simulator

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The first programming language for the Xerox Alto was BCPL, the language that led to C. This article shows how to write a BCPL "Hell...
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Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 1: Power supplies and disk interface

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A few days ago, I wrote about how I'm helping restore a Xerox Alto for Y Combinator. This new post describes the first day of restora...
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Y Combinator's Xerox Alto: restoring the legendary 1970s GUI computer

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Alan Kay recently gave his 1970's Xerox Alto to Y Combinator and I'm helping with the restoration of this legendary system. The Al...
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