Alto III

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Thanks Al...

    I thought Kearns (then CEO of Xerox) had received the Alto III 
proposal.   I wonder if there is anything still floating around out 
there that maybe one of the Xerox guys may still have.     So the Alto 
II XM did in hw what "Ooze" did in software?

   Just to think, if Star or a more commercialized version of the Alto 
could've made it out just a few years earlier, what things would be like 
today.    I wonder if we'd all be picking on Xerox instead of MS.... 
though, I don't think there would've been the BsoD ;-)     Though we may 
have all had color laser printers on our desktops 10 years earlier if 
the Proto color laser had been perfected.



Curt



Al Kossow wrote:
>
> There is no written documentation I have ever come across that
> there was ever anything called an Alto III.
>
> The only follow on to the Alto II was the Alto II XM, which added
> bank switched memory and a larger writable control store.
>
> Alto II was a redesign of some of the Alto I for manufacturability
> done in El Segundo.
>
> Chuck Thacker did the "Dolphin", which was the first Xerox OIS
> workstation. The 8010 is an adaptation of a paper design that
> Butler Lampson did called "Wildflower"
>
> The next machine Chuck worked on after the Dolphin was the
> Dorado.
>
>