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    Altos Computer Systems was founded in 1977 by David G. Jackson and Roger William Vass Sr. It focused on small multi-user computers, starting with multi-user...
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  • The Altos 586 is a multi-user microcomputer that was intended for the business market. It was introduced by Altos Computer Systems in 1983. Introduced...
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    significant influence on the development of future computer systems. The Alto was designed for an operating system based on a GUI, later using the desktop metaphor...
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  • Such systems may constitute personal computers (including desktop computers, portable computers, laptops, all-in-ones, and more), mainframe computers, minicomputers...
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  • Altos Altos Computer Systems, an early microcomputer manufacturer All pages with titles beginning with Altos All pages with titles containing Altos Antos...
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    Microcomputer (redirect from Micro-computer)
    North Star Computers, Southwest Technical Products Corporation, Ohio Scientific, Altos Computer Systems, Morrow Designs and others produced systems designed...
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    Roloff worked as a computer programmer for Silicon Valley companies including Altos Computer Systems in the late 1980s. He sold systems software to Fortune...
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    Computer operating systems (OSes) provide a set of functions needed and used by most application programs on a computer, and the links needed to control...
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    Los Altos Hills (US: /lɑːs ˈæltoʊs/; Los Altos, Spanish for "The Heights") is an incorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, United States. The...
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    center. Altos Computer Systems Andrew Pollack (March 28, 1984). "AT&T Offers Its Computers". The New York Times. "A.T.&T. Addition To Computer Line". The...
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    with creating computer technology-related products and hardware systems. Xerox PARC has been foundational to numerous revolutionary computer developments...
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    1973 to 1979, and at Altos Computer Systems as president and CEO from 1988 to 1990. He was the CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991 to 1995...
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  • Xenix (redirect from SCO XENIX System V)
    for the Altos Computer Systems' non-PC-compatible 8600-series computers (first customer ship date Q1 1982).: 3  Intel sold complete computers with Xenix...
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    company currently specializes in data backup. Altos Computer Systems Compaq Portable Hyperion (computer) Seequa Chameleon Staff writer (December 5, 1983)...
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    Xerox Star (redirect from J-Star (computer))
    University of Illinois. At first, only a few Altos had been built. Although by 1979 nearly 1,000 Ethernet-linked Altos had been put into operation at Xerox and...
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    Wozniak built the first 50 Apple I computers in Jobs's garage in Los Altos. In 2004, landlord Judy Fusco rented her Los Altos home, later known as "Casa Facebook"...
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    packaged Unix system, Xenix, for the IBM PC XT. This work takes advantage of earlier porting and compilers work that Altos Computer Systems had done for...
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  • Intel-based systems. These joined the Intel-based Series 2 systems that Systime also offered. In addition, Systime forged an OEM agreement with Altos Computer Systems...
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    first generalized computer-assisted instruction system. Starting in 1960, it ran on the University of Illinois's ILLIAC I computer. By the late 1970s...
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    Altos Computer Systems Columbia Data Products Compaq Portable series Corona Data Systems Halt and Catch Fire, TV series set in the personal computer revolution...
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    Charles P. Thacker (category Computer designers)
    memory system. While BCC was not commercially successful, this group became the core technologists in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Xerox Palo Alto Research...
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    who designed the Altos' names were on the patent.) National Research Council; Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences; Computer Science and Telecommunications...
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    Li-Chen Wang (category American computer programmers)
    American computer engineer, best known for his Palo Alto Tiny BASIC for Intel 8080-based microcomputers. He was a member of the Homebrew Computer Club and...
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    Charles Geschke (category People from Los Altos, California)
    Wayback Machine Los Altos Town Crier: Two days of terror, uncertainty (part 2/4) Archived January 25, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Los Altos Town Crier: Chuck's...
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    of the Computer History Museum "for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and expert systems." 2013. IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer...
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  • NLS (oN-Line System) was a revolutionary computer collaboration system developed in the 1960s. It was designed by Douglas Engelbart and implemented by...
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  • established stalwarts of the computer industry, in the Unix workstations arena.: C1 : C-10  The up-and-coming Altos Computer Systems—described by one journalist...
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    Altos MS-DOS 2.11 and TeleVideo PC DOS 2.11.) McJones, Paul (October 21, 2014). "Xerox Alto Source Code - The Roots of the Modern Personal Computer"...
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    An operating system shell is a computer program that provides relatively broad and direct access to the system on which it runs. The term shell refers...
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    the iPhone. HP's Personal Systems Group (PSG) was claimed by HP in 2005 to be "one of the leading vendors of personal computers ("PCs") in the world based...
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