DistOS 2019F 2019-09-16
Readings
The Alto:
Notes from class
The Alto -------- * what were the "emulators"? * technology? The alto was the realization of Engelbart's vision (well, start of it) The big inventions * ethernet (LAN) * laser printer * GUI * object-oriented programming (not first, but...smalltalk!) Used other cool things * raster displays * mouse Innovation started bottom-up - because the hardware was so weak Xerox gave us desktop publishing - but Apple ran with it laser printers require many many more "pixels" than screen displays - 300dpi+ versus 72dpi or less - so they also had to figure out how to handle the ridiculous memory requirements of laser printing Why is the Alto relevant to this course? (did they build a distributed OS?)