Xerox Alto: Revision history

8 January 2024

• curprev 07:3607:36, 8 January 2024 Guy Harris talk contribs 33,251 bytes −8 I'm not sure what was heavily modified; I think saying the Star was "based on concepts from the Alto" suffices suffices. (The Alto machines had a different instruction set (although in the early days of Mesa development, there was Alto microcode to run early versions of Mesa bytecode), a different operating system (Pilot). and a modeless and more unified UI.) undo
• curprev 06:5906:59, 8 January 2024 Smuckola talk contribs 33,259 bytes −90 I hope this lead statement better summarizes the body, because I see that sources vary on workstation versus personal computer, which is basically synonymous for the first product of either class; minor copy editing; MOS:TENSE undo
• curprev 02:5502:55, 8 January 2024 Vincent Lextrait talk contribs m 33,349 bytes +1 →History undo

7 January 2024

• curprev 19:4819:48, 7 January 2024 Smuckola talk contribs 33,348 bytes +139 minor copy editing MOS:TENSE; script-assisted date audit and style fixes per MOS:NUM undo
• curprev 19:3619:36, 7 January 2024 Smuckola talk contribs 33,209 bytes −86 again, you broke the idea of redirects around your broken idea of wikilinks. Neither work like this or are for this, obviously. undo
• curprev 15:2015:20, 7 January 2024 ComputerUserUser talk contribs 33,295 bytes +15 No edit summary undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 15:1915:19, 7 January 2024 ComputerUserUser talk contribs 33,280 bytes +8 No edit summary undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• curprev 15:1915:19, 7 January 2024 ComputerUserUser talk contribs 33,272 bytes 0 Undid revision 1191059200 by Guy Harris (talk) There was a page, but it was deleted by someone as an implausible redirect. The parenthetical statement being part of the link aids readability. undo Tag: Undo

21 December 2023

• curprev 13:3913:39, 21 December 2023 ShadyCrack talk contribs 33,272 bytes −41 Condensed caption undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• curprev 09:2809:28, 21 December 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 33,313 bytes 0 Don't just link an arbitrary chunk of text in the hope that there happens to be a Wikipedia page or redirect whose title is that chunk. There *is* a WYSIWYG page, so link *that*; there is rarely a page whose title is an initialism followed by a parenthesized version of the phrase of which it's an initialism - there isn't, in this case, for example. undo Tag: Reverted

20 December 2023

• curprev 17:2317:23, 20 December 2023 ComputerUserUser talk contribs 33,313 bytes +61 No edit summary undo Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
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24 November 2023

• curprev 22:2622:26, 24 November 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 32,618 bytes −6 →Xerox ALTO Classic: New section title isn't an improvement - it miscapitalizes "Alto", which is a redundant word as the article is *about* the Alto*, and throws in "Classic" as if there's some subsequent model of the Alto, but doesn't mention any such second-generation Alto. (Yes, some D-machines could run Alto-emulating microcode, but they mostly ran Mesa or InterLisp or Smalltalk microcode.) undo

23 November 2023

• curprev 15:1115:11, 23 November 2023 176.33.100.42 talk 32,624 bytes +14 No edit summary undo Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit

19 November 2023

• curprev 17:2617:26, 19 November 2023 Kvng talk contribs 32,610 bytes +1,404 image formatting. improve captions. undo

11 November 2023

• curprev 20:4220:42, 11 November 2023 CoolieCoolster talk contribs m 31,206 bytes +30 Disambiguating links to Macintosh (link changed to Macintosh 128K; link changed to Macintosh 128K) using DisamAssist. undo

7 November 2023

• curprev 08:0708:07, 7 November 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 31,176 bytes −4 →Further reading: The Bitsavers copy shows up as is, without all the space-wasting crud you get from archive.org, so you don't get a choice between hard-to-read tiny type and something zoomed in enough to be readable but too zoomed in to be able to see a lot of the page. undo

17 October 2023

• curprev 22:4722:47, 17 October 2023 Peaceray talk contribs m 31,180 bytes 0 →External links: Put categories into the alphanumeric order undo
• curprev 22:4622:46, 17 October 2023 Peaceray talk contribs 31,180 bytes +166 Moving Alto user's handbook into Further reading, as it is a citation, not a note. Removed Note heading. Put Alto user's handbook into {{cite book}} format & added parameters undo
• curprev 22:1122:11, 17 October 2023 2601:500:8784:220:c48d:50f0:3897:bdc7 talk 31,014 bytes +1 No edit summary undo Tag: Manual revert
• curprev 22:1122:11, 17 October 2023 2601:500:8784:220:c48d:50f0:3897:bdc7 talk 31,013 bytes −1 No edit summary undo Tag: Reverted

23 September 2023

• curprev 02:4102:41, 23 September 2023 ShadyCrack talk contribs 31,014 bytes +15 Fixed Mac link undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit
• curprev 02:3502:35, 23 September 2023 ShadyCrack talk contribs 30,999 bytes +1 Missing period undo Tags: Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

15 September 2023

• curprev 05:3405:34, 15 September 2023 SUMIM.ST talk contribs m 30,998 bytes 0 →Diffusion and evolution: Corrected the version of Smalltalk that Steve Jobs saw in 1979. It was not the yet-to-exist Smalltalk-80, but the then-ongoing development version, Smalltalk-76. undo

2 September 2023

• curprev 13:1013:10, 2 September 2023 Bumm13 talk contribs m 30,998 bytes +15 →Xerox and the Alto: formatting fix undo

14 August 2023

• curprev 16:4916:49, 14 August 2023 JasonAQuest talk contribs 30,983 bytes +10 rephrase to make it clear that this is a specific computer model, not just any computer fitting the description. undo Tag: Visual edit

24 July 2023

• curprev 20:5420:54, 24 July 2023 Peter Flass talk contribs 30,973 bytes −2 →Xerox and the Alto: with->to undo

14 July 2023

• curprev 01:5101:51, 14 July 2023 Hub talk contribs m 30,975 bytes −34 no need for url-access undo
• curprev 01:4901:49, 14 July 2023 Hub talk contribs 31,009 bytes +114 Replace dead chapter link to Internet Archive lending librarylink. undo
• curprev 01:4201:42, 14 July 2023 Hub talk contribs 30,895 bytes +83 added book content link to the IA lending library undo

3 June 2023

• curprev 17:4017:40, 3 June 2023 Cpucat talk contribs m 30,812 bytes +4 linked to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_server undo

25 April 2023

• curprev 14:5114:51, 25 April 2023 ClueBot NG talk contribs m 30,808 bytes −53 Reverting possible vandalism by 76.25.254.238 to version by Guy Harris. Report False Positive? Thanks, ClueBot NG. (4235558) (Bot) undo Tag: Rollback
• curprev 14:5114:51, 25 April 2023 76.25.254.238 talk 30,861 bytes +53 →History undo Tag: Reverted

5 April 2023

• curprev 07:5007:50, 5 April 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 30,808 bytes −48 →Diffusion and evolution: Apollo's Aegis OS picked up some stuff from Unix, but it wasn't based on Unix. It was renamed Domain/OS when Unix-compatible environments were added, but Aegis came out in 1981 and didn't turn into Domain/OS until 1988. The Alto wasn't "in the style" of Apollo or Symbolics workstations, as it came before them - it's more as if *they* were in the style of the Alto. undo

4 April 2023

• curprev 17:2317:23, 4 April 2023 205.166.94.16 talk 30,856 bytes −1 Phrasing could be read to imply that the Alto ran Unix and/or was a Symbolics-style Lisp machine, neither of which are correct. undo

27 March 2023

• curprev 20:0020:00, 27 March 2023 Bumm13 talk contribs m 30,857 bytes −4 →History: removed redundant "Computer History Museum" wikilink undo
• curprev 19:5919:59, 27 March 2023 Bumm13 talk contribs m 30,861 bytes +21 →Architecture: minor editing (referring to Alto keyboard) undo
• curprev 19:5819:58, 27 March 2023 Bumm13 talk contribs m 30,840 bytes −36 →Architecture: removed POV/non-neutral "The keyboard is interesting in that " text undo

4 March 2023

• curprev 00:2700:27, 4 March 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 30,876 bytes +480 Use {{cite book}} for a book chapter. (If you prefer, use {{cite report}} for a Xerox PARC technical report.) undo

3 March 2023

• curprev 23:5923:59, 3 March 2023 Guy Harris talk contribs 30,396 bytes −5 Use the new name for the infobox. undo
• curprev 20:1120:11, 3 March 2023 Peaceray talk contribs 30,401 bytes +40 →See also: For "Tomitsch 2003", switched {{cite journal}}-->{{cite web}} & switch to URL at researchgate.net that gives direct access to the PDF; removed unneeded parameters undo
• curprev 19:5719:57, 3 March 2023 Peaceray talk contribs 30,361 bytes +138 →top: For "Koved Selker 1999", changed {{cite document}}-->{{cite web}} to resolve "Cite journal requires |journal=" error, & added a couple of parameters undo
• curprev 19:1319:13, 3 March 2023 Peaceray talk contribs 30,223 bytes +231 →Further reading: Added "Brock 2023" undo

24 January 2023

• curprev 19:2619:26, 24 January 2023 Bumm13 talk contribs m 29,992 bytes +2 →Diffusion and evolution: punctuation fixes undo

18 November 2022

• curprev 07:3807:38, 18 November 2022 Guy Harris talk contribs 29,990 bytes −18 rvv undo Tag: Undo
• curprev 07:1707:17, 18 November 2022 Thankk123 talk contribs 30,008 bytes +6 No edit summary undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit
• curprev 07:1507:15, 18 November 2022 Thankk123 talk contribs 30,002 bytes +12 No edit summary undo Tags: Reverted Mobile edit Mobile web edit

23 October 2022

• curprev 18:3618:36, 23 October 2022 Peter Flass talk contribs 29,990 bytes +1 →Software: better word choice undo