Richard Rashid
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Richard Farris Rashid is an American computer scientist and the founder of Microsoft Research, which he created in 1991. Between 1991 and 2013, as its chief research officer and director, he oversaw t
Rashid at PDC 2008
Xerox Alto
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The Xerox Alto is a computer system developed at Xerox PARC in the 1970s. It is considered one of the first workstations or personal computers, and its development pioneered many aspects of modern com
Richard Rashid
…finishing in 1980. While at Rochester, he and Gene Ball wrote what is probably one of the earliest networked multiplayer computer games, Alto Trek, for Xerox Alto computers. Before joining Microsoft in 1991, Rashid had been the developer of the Mach kernel during his tenure as a professor of computer science at…
Xerox Alto – exhibited at the Heinz Nixdorf MuseumsForum in Paderborn.
The top three buttons
The underside has three rolling balls.
The Alto keyset is a chorded keyboard that never became popular.