4 Nov
2014
4 Nov
'14
4:56 p.m.
The Xerox Alto and CP/M are not Unix-derived, but the first in
particular influenced the design of Unix workstations and the X11
Window System in the 1980s, so this story may be of interest to list
readers:
Exposed: Xerox Alto and CP/M OS source code released
The Computer History Museum has made the code behind yet more
historic software available for download
http://www.itworld.com/article/2838925/exposed-xerox-alto-and-cp-m-os-sourc…
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