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26 Jun 1997

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   Question for
any Alto owners - was the original Xerox GUI machine just as 
 slow?  
 Saw one on TV once, but I'm not sure what the Alto's processor was.  But 
 as I recall, it's GUI wasn't as flashy.  

I think my wife used one when she started working for UCLA in the mid 
'80s.  It was a huge tower cabinet sitting on the floor, with a 
colossal 21" monochrome crt and laser printer/copier.  Window / mouse 
action response was a tad lethargic, as I remember.

Someone later told me that Xerox used their own cpu, specially 
designed for this kind of work: It was caled the MESA cpu.

jeff

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