Xerox Star
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The Xerox Star workstation, officially named Xerox Star 8010 Information System, is the first commercial personal computer to incorporate technologies that have since become standard in personal compu
Xerox Star 8010
Compound document and desktop of 8010/40 system
Windowed interface with scrollbars and greyscale graphics
Evolution of the used document icon shape
AMD Am2900
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Am2900 is a family of integrated circuits created in 1975 by Advanced Micro Devices. They were constructed with bipolar devices, in a bit-slice topology, and were designed to be used as modular compon
Xerox Star
…Dlion"). It is based on a design from a PARC technical report, Wildflower: An Architecture for a Personal Computer, by Butler Lampson. It is based on the AMD Am2900 bitslice microprocessor technology. An enhanced version of the Dandelion, with more microcode space, was dubbed Dandetiger. The base Dandelion system…
AMD Am2901: 4-bit-slice ALU
A 16-bit computer implemented with four (from top) Am2903 slices, AM29703 dual-port register files, and AM2930 program control units
AMD Am2903: 4-bit-slice ALU
Die shot of Am2903