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Check Out the Source Code For the Xerox Alto

Posted by samzenpus on from the take-a-look dept.

jfruh writes The Xerox Alto is a computer legend: it was never sold to the public, but its window-based OS was the inspiration for both the original Mac operating system and Windows. Now you can check out its source code, along with code for CP/M, a similarly old school (though not graphical) operating system.

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  1. Now we can see by dwywit · · Score: 2, Informative

    where Gates & Jobs got all their ideas from.

    --
    They sentenced me to twenty years of boredom
    1. Re:Now we can see by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      it wasn't woz.

      it was bill atkinson.

      http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=I_Still_Remember_Regions.txt&topic=QuickDraw